Hagia Sophia building materials

Justinian, who built Ayasofya'sını masons, concrete is widely used in the West Roman Empire, unlike monumental works of stone, brick and mortar used. However, Istanbul earlier structures, including, perhaps Iustinianos'tan previous Sophia, debris mixed mortar or one or more rows of stones to be built in several bricks örülmesîyle alternately at regular intervals, respectively, but mainly a new stone Ayasofya piers are used regularly in rows on the walls built of bricks and mortar. Exposed brick walls are rough rubble filling.

Stones limestone or green stone. Three cornice made of marble columns and the interior. Where the point between the blocks of cornice brackets, arches and vaults, vault above the rooftops of cusps or gallery stretched between the beams in the walls of iron used to brace her feet. The vaults and domes of various size and thickness of the outer surfaces are protected by coating the lead plates. The four main pillars in the interior of large quantities of lead used is mentioned. Opened all the doors opened from the narthex and inner narthex nave interior center of the door (Imperial Gate) Bronze was used for coating. Timber, only a small amount of link beams and bronze have been used on the inside of the doors is remarkable.

The whole building, are embedded in different types of arches and thick layer of mortar composed of walls built of brick. Central dome, two half-dome, the other half-domes, barrel vaults and the dome on the ground floor and galleries neflerinin all brick vaults and thick layer of mortar, as the case has been built using expertly. 50-60 mm thick layers of mortar joints and bricks are thicker than the 2:3 ratio of mortar-brick 'type so that the structure, the mass of bricks, mortar consists of a lot.

The average size of almost all the bricks, as thick as a surface of 0.375 m2 and 40-50 mm; center of the main arches under the dome is very rare, and 0.7 m2 surface sized and large bricks was used up, they are estimated to have been imported. Remarkable way, the central dome (including ribs), just above the window arches is only 80 cm thick, gradually thinning to the point where the ribs meet with lattice dome, where the total thickness goes down to 65 cm. Home has a thickness of half-domes, and possibly slightly below the normal size of 0.8 m in two elongated brick.

Justinian in Constantinople in 532 new churches were built after the Nika Rebellion Holy Apostles and St. Irene completely encased in brick vaults. In contrast, uncle Justinian I. Iustinus'un (518-27) during the reign of the Crown itself, 'while the 518/19 in Peter and Paul Church, built by the Marmara Sea, close to the roof of the palace Hormisdas, probably made before the basilica type churches in the capital as well as more traditional style, a wooden çatıydı. Hagia Sophia, St. Irene, and the massive foundations of the Holy Apostles Iustinianos'a, Aziz Ioannes Evangelist Church in Ephesus in the same way and the other churches are rebuilt after Nika Rebellion in western Europe, the Romanesque period covered entirely vaulted basilica type the first six centuries of church yapılmışlardı more time ago.

France, Spain, Germany and the Norman Romanesque İngilteresi'ndeki Ayasofya'sı bazilikalarda Justinian, as well as the fire protection, self-designed as a construction much more durable been done before. During the reign of Justinian, the construction of the church in Constantinople as the primary reason for using common brick vault, insurrection, which had the result of fires in the city's havoc. For this reason, Agathias, Justinian Ayasofyası'nda 'use of wood to prevent burn more easily in a church writes kaçınıldığı'nı.