The subject matter of the volume is the former Church of Saint Sophia, today’s Ayasofya Museum built by Justinian the Great in 532-37. It covers the early history of Byzantium and Constantinople, the first and second churches of St Sophia which were built on the same spot, the Nika (Victory) Riots and construction of present-day building and its history first as a mosque and later as a Museum. The last part of the volume deals with its surviving mosaics and includes pictures of all of them. The text is supplemented with plans and drawings of Fossatis who restored the monument in the nineteenth Century.
160 pp with many color pictures, hb, in English.
