between 42nd and 53rd Streets, and encompassing Times Square. Broadway was once a two-way street for its entire length. The present status, in which it runs one-way southbound south of Columbus Circle (59th Street), came about in several stages. Broadway is lined with many famous and otherwise noted and historic buildings, such as · 2 Broadway is an office building at the south end of Broadway in New York City · 280 Broadway was the first commercial building in the Italianate style in New York City · 1501 Broadway, also known as the Paramount Building, is a 33-story, 131.5 m (431 ft) office building · The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre Canyon of Heroes during a ticker-tape parade for the Apollo 11 astronauts on August 13, 1969 Plaza
into a museum. For almost 500 years the principal mosque of Istanbul, Hagia Sophia served as a model for many of the Ottoman mosques. Although it is sometimes referred to as Santa Sophia, the Greek name in full is Church of the Holy Wisdom of God. It was to this, the Holy Wisdom of God, that the Church was dedicated ("Sophia" being the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom). So Santa Sophia should be understood as the italianate title of the church, Holy Wisdom; not as a reference to some saint named Sophia. · Hagia Sophia has forty windows around the base of the dome. It is famous for the mystical quality of light that reflects everywhere in the interior of the nave. · When the dome was placed atop Hagia Sophia, its weight caused the walls to lean outward, because of the wet mortar underneath. In order to rebuild the dome,
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