BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE | History of architecture

Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Later Roman or Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantine architecture was mostly influenced by Roman and Greek architecture and later Sassanian and Islamic influences to an extent. This terminology is used by modern historians to designate the medieval Roman Empire as it evolved as a distinct artistic and cultural entity centered on the new capital of Constantinople rather than the city of Rome and environs. The empire endured for more than a millennium, dramatically influencing Medieval architecture throughout Europe and the Near East, and becoming the primary progenitor of the Renaissance and Ottoman architectural traditions that followed its collapse.
Buildings increased in geometric complexity, brick and plaster were used in addition to stone in the decoration of important public structures, classical orders were used more freely, mosaics replaced carved decoration, complex domes rested upon massive piers, and windows filtered light through thin sheets of alabaster to softly illuminate interiors. Most of the surviving structures are sacred in nature, with secular buildings mostly known only through contemporaneous descriptions.
Buildings increased in geometric complexity, brick and plaster were used in addition to stone in the decoration of important public structures, classical orders were used more freely, mosaics replaced carved decoration, complex domes rested upon massive piers, and windows filtered light through thin sheets of alabaster to softly illuminate interiors. Most of the surviving structures are sacred in nature, with secular buildings mostly known only through contemporaneous descriptions.
Ultimately, Byzantine architecture in the West gave a way to Carolingian, Romanesque, and Gothic architecture. The Holy Trinity Hellenic Orthodox Church is the oldest built Byzantine style church in the U.S.A, located in Lowell, Massachusetts.

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[@Nonamearisto]

It wasn't influenced BY Islamic sources; Byzantine architecture was an influence ON Islamic architecture, especially the that of the Turks.
We'll get Constantinople back someday. I don't know when or how, but we will. Like reclaiming Spain and Portugal.

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@Devine Truth in your dreams you suckers most likely we will be the ones who takes the lost lands of ours

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@@kerimozdemir4009 just like in Iberia and Eastern Europe, you will be kicked out from Constantinopla back to Mongolia your real land

[@AMR_k400]

Well Byzantium was heavily influenced by middle eastern architecture and other stuff especially sasanian even the famous byzantine armor is sasanian in origin and cataphracs were invented by persians

[@Nonamearisto]

@@AMR_k400 Eastern Roman architecture was NOT influenced by the Middle East. It's the other way around, actually. And the Selucid Empire was the first to employ cataphracts, not the Sassanids.

[@AMR_k400]

@@Nonamearisto i said cataphracs were invented by persians i didnt say sasanid or selucid
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