St.Sofia in Konstantinopol – standard for eastern-orthodox temple

During the 6th century, when in Serdica is built the most-representative three-shipped basilisk in the Byzantine world, in the center of Byzantium, Konstantinopol, was built a church, which becomes a standard, because a new symbolism was born from it, first level of the Byzantine liturgy interpretation, named in the Mistagogy of Maksim Izpovednik later on(around 630 year). This is one of the rare cases, when the architecture outstands with one century the writings, to give and save with its “language” ideas and to form concepts, which the theology could not explain yet. Formers of the temple are Isidor from Milet and Antimii from Tral. The building begins in 532 year and the temple is consecrated in 537 year. The architecture of the temple “retells” the cosmology of the Christianity, combining it with the idea for the divine origin of the imperial power. In the composition elements and the connection between them are implemented logical meanings, which become base for the eastern-orthodox. The scheme of the temple used as a prototype the basilisk of Maksenciy and the Pantheon(the temple of all gods) in Rome, and also the dome basilisks in Asia Minor. It combines octagonal and three-shipped schemes, e.g. the prototype of martyrium and church for the people. The octagon is widely stretched on its longitudinal axis, and the columns of the three-shipped space are turned into powerful pillars, which carry the big central dome with a diameter almost 32 meters and the two domes, covering the formed ellipse.