One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

The Hagia Sophia architects innovatively combined the longitudinal structure of a Roman basilica and the central plan of a drum-supported dome, in order to withstand the high magnitude earthquakes of the Marmara Region, “ However, in May 558, little more than 20 years after the Church ’ s dedication, following the earthquakes of August 553 and December 557, parts of the central dome and its supporting structure system collapsed .” The Hagia Sophia was repeatedly cracked by earthquakes and was quickly repaired.

The Ottomans introduced central dome mosques in the 15th century.

In addition to having a large central dome, a common feature is smaller domes that exist off-center over the prayer hall or throughout the rest of the mosque, where prayer is not performed.

The Capitol building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings, one for each chamber of Congress: the north wing is the Senate chamber and the south wing is the House of Representatives chamber.

* c. 1080 – 1100 – Christ Pantokrator, mosaic in the central dome, church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece, is made.

After the large central dome made of Guastavino tile was completed in 1909, the original Byzantine-Romanesque design was changed to a Gothic design.

The central dome has an octagonal plan, stands 97 m high, and weighs some 20, 000 tons.

This ongoing unrest includes recurring earthquake swarms and continued dome-shaped uplift of the central section of the caldera ( the resurgent dome ) accompanied by changes in thermal springs and gas emissions.

The half dome of the central apse has a colossal half-length figure of Christ, with a seated Virgin and Child below ; the other apses have full-length figures of St Peter and St Paul.

The nematocysts are located throughout the tentacles that radiate downward from the edge of the umbrella dome, and also cover the four or eight oral arms that hang down from the central mouth.

In 1851, physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the earth by his experiment conducted in the Panthéon, by constructing a 67 meter Foucault pendulum beneath the central dome.

The north front of the Invalides: Mansart's dome above Bruant's pedimented central block

For his personal use, he had a banqueting hall and living room installed in the massive, central, square French-style dome.

The phrase Tibi dabo forms part of the inscription in the central dome of St. Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican City, although drawn from Jesus ' words to St. Peter in.

File: EastonNestonfromVitruviusBritannicus edited. jpg | Easton Neston House ( c. 1695-1710 ), Northamptonshire, only the central block minus the dome was actually built

Originally two storey with curved central bow, fronted by a semi-circular Ionic colonnade, and surmounted by a dome.

Lava eruptions later created a central platform, Wizard Island, Merriam Cone, and other, smaller volcanic features, including a rhyodacite dome that was eventually created atop the central platform.

The crowning central dome was added to the design at a late stage, after building had begun.

A large part of the house was destroyed by fire which broke out on 9 November 1940, including the central dome.

The Upper Tribune is an octagonal room surmounted with a central dome.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying stores, where meat cutters will not be required.

The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen.

One matter of concern to the complete effectiveness of pool operations is the lack of adequate central garage facilities.

You can install it yourself -- this is a central system that will cool every part of your house.

Best of all, central air conditioning is something you can afford.

No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.

Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

The idea of a central tank with lines to each house is not in itself a novelty.

On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.

The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.

The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.

Furthermore, conditioned reactions are fundamentally altered when the hypothalamic sympathetic reactivity is augmented beyond a critical level, and several types of behavioral changes probably related to the degree of central autonomic `` tuning '' are observed.

It has further been shown that: ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ;

And in the economy of the book it is not peripheral but central.

This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.