Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1916 — Famous Mosque of St Sophia. [ARTICLE]

Famous Mosque of St Sophia.

Mohammedans reverence Constants nople next to Mecca, and St Sophia, or the “Church of the Divine Wisdom,” holds first rank in the affections of the faithful. Commenced in th* year 532 A. D. on the site of several successive Christian churches of th* same name, no fewer thap 10,00* workmen are said to have been emi ployed upon its construction, undid the direction of 100 master builder*. -