Hagia Sophia is dedicated

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1. Story
2. The church is dedicated five years after work began - an extraordinarily short campaign for a building of that ambition, and part of why the first dome failed. The interior sets a dome roughly 31 m across on four piers by means of pendentives, and the two half-domes to east and west absorb the thrust along the long axis so that the space reads as one continuous volume.
3. Knowledge
4. The dome
5. The pendentive
6. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
7. Hagia Sophia is dedicated
8. Connections
9. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
10. The dome
11. The pendentive
12. The Pantheon, Rome
13. Anthemius of Tralles
14. World Heritage Committee
15. Constantinople
16. The pendentive
17. Justinian commissions Hagia Sophia from two geometers
18. Hagia Sophia is dedicated
19. The first dome of Hagia Sophia collapses
20. The steeper dome is dedicated
21. The voussoir arch
22. The pendentive
23. The Pantheon, Rome
24. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
25. Hagia Sophia is dedicated
26. The first dome of Hagia Sophia collapses
27. The steeper dome is dedicated
28. The dome
29. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
30. Justinian commissions Hagia Sophia from two geometers
31. Hagia Sophia is dedicated
32. Evidence
33. Near-contemporary description of Hagia Sophia and of its designers Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus, and the principal ancient literary source for the building. It is a panegyric written for Justinian and should be read as such, not as a construction record. V55 verification basis: the text was not read in this session and no specific passage is quoted here.
34. Collected structural and historical studies of Hagia Sophia, covering the pendentive system, the 558 dome collapse and the steeper 562 rebuilding, and the building's subsequent structural history. V55 verification basis: real and standard, not consulted in this session.