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- Cu Damian Anfile, la pas prin Istanbul ! Partea 1 , Basilica Sf Sofia !
Cu Damian Anfile, la pas prin Istanbul ! Partea 1 , Basilica Sf Sofia !
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Good morning!
Here we are in Istanbul, although we should be in Ulaanbaatar, right?
At the Olympics
The whole Turkish world, Mongolia, right?
But that's a different matter
The Turks have business with the Mongols?
They are Altai here, originally
And a legend says that when Genghis Khan conquered Afghanistan
He gathered a tribe of Turks who migrated here and founded the Ottoman Empire
So we are practically at the end of Genghis Khan's influence
I think that God made us to be here now, because as I told you yesterday, Damian has a PhD thesis in the relationship between the Byzantine Empire and the Mongol Empire, right?
Exactly!
And we were going to Mongolia without going to the Byzantine Empire.
So we had to make the physical connection, not only on paper, right?
Exactly!
In contrast to the fact that you are still a little bit in South Korea, this is better.
Or at least we are more familiar with the environment.
Yes, yes.
Well, where are we going now?
We take advantage of this scale to see a little of historical Istanbul.
We are certainly trying to see the Holy Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Cistern of Erebatan.
We will go to the old boulevard of Constantinople, Mese
Which is almost unchanged as a structure for 2,700 years
And if we have the chance tonight, we may visit the Panar district
We don't say there what we visit before
We prefer to keep the suspense
Surprise
Exactly
So stay with us to go to Hagia Sophia
Holy Sophia
And we reached the first objective
The city of Rasarita became what we call today the Byzantine Empire.
Like any state that had to have universal suzerainty,
this state had to have a center of ceremonies, a sacred space,
and this was the Church of St. Sophia.
When it was commissioned, it appealed to two of the most famous architects of the time,
Antemius of Thrales and Isidor of Miletus.
These people, being mathematicians at the base, managed to calculate the proportions of the building
The central dome, which we can see until today, is not the original one.
There were at least two earthquakes, as far as I know, in which the dome fell and was rebuilt.
But the central dome does not stand on any kind of column, but rather rests on a network of bolts that support the entire building.
It seems that they used a new formula at Mortar.
In this way, they kept it active for a long time.
The mortar didn't become a cassant in time,
to destroy the resistance structure.
And it is said that when the cathedral was ready,
because it is a cathedral, and the Stimian entered it,
it would be exclaimed that Solomon had won,
because he built a building bigger than the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.
The church remained, for almost a thousand years,
