The chapel's domed octagon design was influenced by Byzantine models such as the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, the Church of Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople, and perhaps the Chrysotriklinos, or " golden reception hall ", of the Great Palace of Constantinople.

Byzantine art's crowning achievement were the monumental frescos and mosaics inside domed churches, most of which have not survived due to natural disasters and the appropriation of churches to mosques.

Byzantine art's crowning achievement were the monumental frescos and mosaics inside domed churches, most of which have not survived due to natural disasters and the appropriation of churches to mosques.

In Romanesque, Byzantine and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral and church architecture, the term is applied to a semi-circular or polygonal termination of the main building at the liturgical east end ( where the altar is ), regardless of the shape of the roof, which may be flat, sloping, domed, or hemispherical.

It combines tall, slender minarets with large domed buildings supported by half domes in the style of the Byzantine church Hagia Sophia ( which the Ottomans converted into the mosque of Aya Sofya )" ( 481 Traditions and Encounters: Brief Global History ).

Its architectural plan is a four column cruciform Byzantine domed basilica with north, south and east apses, and seven domes.

In 1932 the Chapeltown Road New Synagogue, a large domed Byzantine style building, was opened.

In particular, Beman minimized the Ottoman and Byzantine elements, bringing the domed structure into line with the Classical architectural style that Beman favored as most appropriate for Christian Science churches.

To that end, nearly every building on campus is noticeably Byzantine in style, with sand and pink-colored bricks, large archways and columns being a common theme among many campus buildings.

Combining features of Roman and Byzantine buildings and other local traditions, Romanesque architecture is known by its massive quality, thick walls, round arches, sturdy piers, groin vaults, large towers and decorative arcading.

A number of ancient Roman, Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian buildings are preserved in the centre of the city.

On his entrance in Constantinople, Michael VIII Palaiologos abolished all Latin customs and reinstated most Byzantine ceremonies and institutions as they had existed before the Fourth Crusade, repopulating the capital and restoring damaged churches, monasteries, and public buildings.

The ruins of mosques, baths, and houses, dispersed among the gardens and apartment buildings that now occupy a great part of the space within the Roman and Byzantine fortifications, show that the Ottoman era town center, though now less considerable, was once a place of importance ; but it never was as large as the Byzantine city.

During the Byzantine period there must still have been a considerable population: for the ruins contain a large number of buildings belonging to the Byzantine style, and Christian sepulchres are common in the neighbourhood.

The acropolis ( 280 ft ) has an amphitheatre on its northern slope, and eastwards lie many remains of Byzantine buildings.

The earliest grand Islamic buildings, like the Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem had interior walls decorated with mosaics in the Byzantine style, but without human figures.

The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is one of the most important buildings in all of Islamic architecture, marked by a strong Byzantine influence ( mosaic against a gold background, and a central plan that recalls that of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ), but already bearing purely Islamic elements, such as the great epigraphic frieze.

With the decline in the empire's resources following losses in population and territory, domes in Byzantine architecture were used as part of more modest new buildings.

Three Byzantine churches ( a main church and two smaller churches ), 2 wine-presses, residential areas and administrative buildings have been excavated at Shivta.

It has traditionally been used for carving statues, and for facing many Byzantine and Renaissance Italian buildings.

No Crusader era buildings have been found in al-Bassa, and a cross once dated to the Crusader period was later re-dated to the Byzantine era.

The Dome of the Rock ( Qubbat al-Sakhrah ) in Jerusalem ( 691 ) is one of the most important buildings in all of Islamic architecture, marked by a strong Byzantine influence ( mosaic against a gold background, and a central plan that resembles that of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, although the church itself was renovated several times in the Islamic period ), but already bearing purely Islamic elements, such as the great epigraphic frieze.

Neo-Byzantine architecture had a small following in the wake of the 19th-century Gothic revival, resulting in such jewels as Westminster Cathedral in London, and in Bristol from about 1850 to 1880 a related style known as Bristol Byzantine was popular for industrial buildings which combined elements of the Byzantine style with Moorish architecture.

Although fully fledged flying buttresses only developed in the Gothic period, their precursors can be found in Byzantine architecture and in some Romanesque buildings, such as Durham Cathedral, where quadrant arches were used to carry the lateral thrust of the stone vault over the aisles.

There are few buildings dating from the period of the Byzantine Empire or the 18th century.

From 2004 an excavation started around the ancient Acropolis of Lissos and the Skanderbeg Memorial, which revealed Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine buildings, tombs and other findings.

Ottoman architecture was a synthesis of Iranian-influenced Seljuk architectural traditions, as seen in the buildings of Konya, Mamluk architecture, and Byzantine architecture ; it reached its greatest development in the large public buildings, such as mosques and caravanserais, of the 16th century.

Also, the typically multi-ethnic Byzantine force was always racked by dissension and lack of command unity, a similar situation also being encountered among the Sassanids who had been embroiled in a bitter civil war for a decade before the coming of the Arabs.

The Byzantine Emperor would typically protect the Eastern Church and manage its administration by presiding over Ecumenical Councils and appointing Patriarchs and setting territorial boundaries for their jurisdiction.

The full imperial title uses both typically Byzantine and revived archaic Roman elements: ΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΕΝ ΧΩ ΤΩ ΘΩ ΠΙCΤΟC ΒΑCΙΛΕΥC ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΡΩΜΑΙΩΝ Ο ΠΑΛΑΙΟΛΟΓΟC ΚΑΙ ΑΕΙ ΑΥΓΟΥCΤΟC, " Manuel, by the grace of Christ the God, faithful Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans, the Palaiologos, forever Augustus ( honorific ) | August ".

Two types of monastic women were typically consecrated to the female diaconate in the early and middle Byzantine period.

The region of Macedonia, on the other hand, which was ruled by the First Bulgarian Empire throughout the 9th and the 10th century, was incorporated into the Byzantine Empire in 1018 as the Themе of Bulgaria.

The whole of Macedonia was incorporated into the Byzantine Empire as Theme of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was reduced in rank to an archbishopric.

The eastern successor of the Roman Empire in the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, retained control over Thrace until the 8th century when the northern half of the entire region was incorporated into the First Bulgarian Empire.

Thessaloniki passed out of Byzantine hands in 1204, when Constantinople was captured by the forces of the Fourth Crusade and incorporated the city and its surrounding territories in the Kingdom of Thessalonica — which then became the largest vassal of the Latin Empire.

After a number of unsuccessful sieges, the city fell to the Byzantine Empire in 1018, but once again was incorporated into the restored Bulgarian Empire at the time of Tsar Ivan Asen I.

A great deal of destruction was done to the tombs over the centuries by quarrying and by their conversion for use as housing, both by monks in the Byzantine period, when some were used as churches, and later by Muslim villagers: " When the Arab village was built ; tombs were destroyed, incorporated in houses or turned into water cisterns and sewage dumps.

With the beginning of the Byzantine offensives in the East and the Balkans in the 10th century, especially under the warrior-emperors Nikephoros II ( r. 963 – 969 ), John I Tzimiskes ( r. 969 – 976 ) and Basil II ( r. 976 – 1025 ), newly gained territories were also incorporated into themes, although these were generally smaller than the original themes established in the 7th and 8th centuries.

In the Middle Ages, Bingöl was known as Romanoupolis () after the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, who incorporated it permanently into the Byzantine Empire in 942.

When the Ottomans captured the city from the Byzantines, they converted the basilica to a mosque ( now a museum ) and incorporated Byzantine architectural elements into their own work ( e. g. domes ).

The pope claimed the recognition of his supremacy over Hungary which Géza did not accept, but the Byzantine emperor sent a crown, that was later incorporated with the ancient crown of Hungary, to him and Géza was crowned by that crown because the ancient crown was in the possession of King Solomon.

Pearson began his career drawing purely on English medieval prototypes, but increasingly incorporated ideas from abroad: Charles Locke Eastlake described Pearson's Christchurch at Appleton-le-Moors as " modelled on the earliest and severest type of French Gothic, with an admixture of details almost Byzantine in character.

It was one of the most important strongholds of the Byzantine Empire from the 5th century AD onwards, and was fought over by Byzantines and Bulgarians, being captured and incorporated in the lands of the First Bulgarian Empire in 812 by Khan Krum after a two week siege only to be ceded back to Byzantium by Knyaz Boris I in 864 and reconquered by his son Tsar Simeon the Great.

However, when King Stephen III transferred the three provinces to Manuel I, they were incorporated into the Byzantine Empire.

Silver was the most common material used, with gold reserved for more high-status pieces ; designs often displayed complex filigree work and incorporated Persian and Byzantine motifs.

Raids by the Goths and the Huns furthered its decline, and it was incorporated into the Byzantine state under Justin I in the early 6th century AD.

During the Byzantine Age, the island was incorporated into the Theme of Samos.

Approximately 700 years after the end of Byzantine rule, the Dodecanese was incorporated into the Greek State.

When Constantine moved the capital of the empire to Byzantium ( renamed Constantinople ), Roman art incorporated Eastern influences to produce the Byzantine style of the late empire.

When Constantine moved the capital of the empire to Byzantium ( renamed Constantinople ), Roman art incorporated Eastern influences to produce the Byzantine style of the late empire.

The issue became divisive when the provinces of Byzantine Italy which were under the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople were forcibly incorporated into the Church of Rome following their invasion by the Norman armies.

The Armenian voluntary immigrations into the Byzantine Empire began as early as the 6th century ; from the reign of Emperor Maurice ( 582 – 602 ) onwards they were solidly incorporated into the military fabric of the Byzantine army.

In the 1340s, taking advantage of a Byzantine civil war, the Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV Dušan conquered Epirus and incorporated it in his Serbian Empire.