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Show Beautiful St. Sophia. St. Sophia's church at Constantinople Constanti-nople Is one of 4he most remurkn.tle buildings In the world. In architectural architec-tural features the structure has a 197-foot 197-foot dome carried on four pillars, one nt each corner, and composed of light pumice stone, with the apex 175 feet above the floor. So extraordinary- Is the appearaBC of the church that the Bwe-strtrkeo. Sultan Mohammed Is reported as hiring hir-ing stopped nt the door when the burning burn-ing was taken over by the Moslems and, seeing a soldier hewing at the floor "For the faith," exclaimed, "ye have the whole city to pillage and enslave; en-slave; leave ye me the buildings'" The Mohammedan have never destroyed de-stroyed the treasures of art they found upon taking Constantinople, but have covered them up. They have preserved pre-served whole cisterns or cellars full of priceless manuscripts of Greek and Byzantine literature, and writings belonging be-longing to the early part of the 'Jos-pel 'Jos-pel nge. |