Surf these sites: Athos The Holy Mountain ---- Mount Athos ----- Holy Mountain ----- Agio Oros -- Mount Athos Is the centre of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism. Byzantium1200 -- Project aiming to create computer reconstructions of the Byzantine monuments in Istanbul in 1200 AD. Church of St. Theodore at Mistra, Greece -- Photograph of the 11th-century Byzantine Church from Fordham University, New York. Computer Model of the Hagia Sophia -- Project by Princeton University in 1996. Technical details of producing the model, some photographs. Eastern Christian Architecture -- Substantial, illustrated article with bibliography from Encyclopędia Britannica on the characteristics and development of the Byzantine style. Hagia Sofia -- One of the greatest monuments of Byzantium, Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century in Constantinople (Istanbul). Hagia Sophia -- Great Buildings Online provide photographs, 3D model, choice quotations and bibliography of the Byzantine masterpiece designed by Isidoros and Anthemios at Istanbul, Turkey, 532-7. Monuments of Ancient Georgia -- Photographs and descriptions of a fascinating group of early churches, provided by Lika Mamulashvili and hosted by the Parliament of Georgia (Europe). San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy -- This octagonal church, built 526-47, is among the finest and least altered of all Byzantine buildings. Great Buildings Online provides a description and bibliography.
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