A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 142
which open into roundapses, so that three apses group about eachsemi-dome, the smaller half-domes withwhich they are covered cutting like lunettesinto the semi-domes. The apses are lined,not with walls, but with arcades like thosewhich close the side arches of the greatdome. But at the west end… … Fig, 54, -Constantinople, Sta, Sofia, wise cruciform, as it lias been called, norbasilical, nor aisled, but consists of asingle nave of a peculiar shape that liasnot been repeated. The spaces on eachside the nave, divided into separate cham-bers by the main piers, which extend later-ally to the…
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