Located near the empress lodge in hagia sophia the door of heaven and hell marble door is a door made of marble.
Marble door of hagia sophia.
Once a church later a mosque and now a museum at the turkish republic hagia sophia has always been the precious of its time.
It is probably removed from another hellenistic building and was brought to hagia sophia.
It is said that the room also housed the synod council in 1166 and the decisions taken by them were displayed on marble.
That each side is symbolic and that one side represents heaven while the other represents hell.
The room was used by the priests for their religious meetings.
Entire sections of the church were curtained off for various reasons.
Here is a huge wall in hagia sophia showing marble revetment.
It is said by whom.
The proconessian columns in hagia sophia seem to have stood up very well to the force of the pressure of the great arches and vaults of the building.
The marble door was used by synod members to enter and exit to the meeting chamber.
It was used by the participants in synods who entered and left the meeting chamber through this door.
Here is a close up of the great book matched double panel of cippolino rosso in the center.
The leaves of the entryway are covered by bronze plates.
Above the door hooks for drapery have been sunk into the beautifully veined marble.
The marble door inside the hagia sophia is located in the southern upper enclosure or gallery.
The door used to separate the west and south galleries there are depictions of fruit fish.
Cipollino rosso also called carian or iasos marble comes from kiyi kislacik in mugla province turkey and is mined today.
The emperor entryway is 7 meters long and made of oak and has a bronze edge.
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The floors of hagia sophia were paved with blue banded proconnesian marble that was laid to resemble waves.
This would be a very bright and striking panel if it were polished.
It is located at the upper southern gallery.
Below is an example.
There were drapes and tapestries all over the church hagia sophia.
Hagia sophia is a great architectural beauty and an important monument both for byzantine and for ottoman empires.