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| Hagia Sophia - gold mosaics from Christian times |
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| The angel's face as it has been revealed in the restoration of Hagia Sophia. |
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| Topkapi Palace overlooking the Bosphorous |
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| In the corner of the huge central dome there are 4 seraphim mosaics ( God's protector angels with 6 wings) on the 4 pendentives that carry the dome. The 4 seraphims' faces were covered with 6-7 layers of plaster for almost 160 years during the sovereignty of Ottomans. The last person who saw the faces of the Seraphims was the Swiss architect Gaspare Fossati while he was holding the restoration at Hagia Sophia in 1840s. With 10 days hard work, experts managed to take off the 7 layers of plasters and reveal the face of one of the seraphims. |
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