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Anthemius' Floating Byzantine Dome

Middle Ages
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Anthemius' Floating Byzantine Dome
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Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 2 to 4
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   4.45

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    artistic, basilica, emperor, time, museum, dome, math, church, base, marble, building, chain, heaven, large, build, idea
     content words:    Hagia Sophia, Divine Wisdom, Taj Mahal


Anthemius' Floating Byzantine Dome
By Colleen Messina
  

1     A long time ago a man named Anthemius had a big job. The Byzantine emperor Justinian I wanted him to build a beautiful church.
 
2     Anthemius had a great idea. He built a large dome. He built it so that it had no columns inside. This made the dome seem like it was floating in the air! No one had ever built a church like it before. The base of the building was in the shape of a cross. The building was called the Hagia Sophia. Those words meant divine wisdom. It was built between 532 and 537 A.D.

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