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A Byzantine domed church with pendentives and crosses, a round arch with columns, a gold mosaic tile pattern, and an iconostasis screen silhouette on a light gray background

Pendentives, Gold Mosaics, and the Hagia Sophia — How Deep Is Your Byzantine Knowledge?

Architectural Styles

Difficulty

Hard

Questions

30

Volts

3/q

They put circular domes on square bases, lined walls with gold mosaics, and built a cistern held up by hundreds of recycled columns. Byzantine architecture shaped a millennium. 30 hard questions. No shortcuts.

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