This structure is home to two urns, each cut from a single piece of marble, named the Lustration Urns from Pergamon. Four pendentives were the initial supports for one of the highlights of this structure which collapsed in an earthquake and prompted its architect to make the feature taller and more stable. This structure also houses a mosaic at its entrance that depicts a child Christ sitting upon the lap of the Virgin Mary with a scroll in his left hand.. It was designed by Isidore of Miletus and reconstructed following the Nika riots. For 10 points, name this church turned mosque turned muse
This structure is home to two urns, each cut from a single piece of marble, named the Lustration Urns from Pergamon. Four pendentives were the initial supports for one of the highlights of this structure which collapsed in an earthquake and prompted its architect to make the feature taller and more stable. This structure also houses a mosaic at its entrance that depicts a child Christ sitting upon the lap of the Virgin Mary with a scroll in his left hand.. It was designed by Isidore of Miletus and reconstructed following the Nika riots. For 10 points, name this church turned mosque turned museum in Istanbul commissioned by emperor Justinian I.
This structure is home to two urns, each cut from a single piece of marble, named the Lustration Urns from Pergamon.
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