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The Hagia Sophia ornamental ceiling, Byzantine architecture, famous landmark and architectural world wonder in Istanbul, Turkey #178237323
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The Hagia Sophia is of masonry construction. The structure has brick and mortar joints that are 1.5 times the width of the bricks. The mortar joints are composed of a combination of sand and minute ceramic pieces distributed evenly throughout the mortar joints. This combination of sand and ceramic pieces could be considered the contemporaneous equivalent of modern concrete.[3]
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