St Sophia Mosque to be repaired as Christian nations vow aid
An international commission plans immediate restoration of St Sophia in Constantinople. Earthquakes and age have widened cracks in the dome and walls, risking collapse. Christian nations and funds will back repairs to preserve the famed mosque for eventual return to Christendom.
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Constantinople
Europe
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Baal
Bek
Justinian
Anthemius of
Thrales
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Baldwin of Flanders
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Thorne
The Mosque of Saint Sophia and Its Turkish Rebirth
A vivid, sweeping appraisal of Saint Sophia as older than Rome’s great churches, detailing the Ottoman transformation from a Christian cathedral to a mosque. The piece recounts the desecration of mosaics and statues, four minarets added to the dome, and the vaults beneath holding untold manuscripts.
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Allah
St. Peter's
Rome
Pantheon
St. Angélo
St. Sophia
Justinian
Leo the Isaurian
Basil the Macedonian
John Zimisces
Androicus
House of Palaeologus
Geoffrey de Villehardouin
Romania
Constantinople
China to Adopt New Forty-Two Character Alphabet
A New York American report explains China plans a revolutionary alphabet of forty-two characters replacing eight thousand ideographs. A committee including Chow Hi Chu and Solonghello designed the system using vowels from Greek Russian Latin and Chinese and consonants from Latin Russian and Greek. Officials anticipate general use by year’s end.
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New York
Jou
Thouands
Chow-Hi-Chu
Rome
Wan and
Chou
Solonghello
School of
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