Trebizond [modern Trabzon]: Ayia Sophia [Ayasofya mosque], apse and dome

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1083.2901
Level Item
Description Film negative, quarter plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Hagia Sophia Trebizond
Trabzon
East Black Sea Region
Dates 1908
Donor/Creator Hasluck, Dr Frederick William
Project Hasluck Asia Minor Travels
Scope and Content Part of a collection of Hasluck's travels to Pontus in 1908. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Trebizond: S. Sophia, apse & dome. 1895 BCH Millet ".
Notes Dates to Hasluck's travels in the Pontus in 1908 ('Annual Meeting of Subscribers' 1907/1908. Annual of the British School at Athens 14:424). The publication cited in the caption is G. Millet, 1895, 'Les monastères et les églises de Trébizonde' Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 19(1): 419-459. Fig. 21 on p. 449 is a plan of the church. The 13th century church of Agia Sofia became the mosque of Ayasofya in 1584, and now functions as a museum.
Related records [BRF/02/02/04/005], Hagia Sophia, before 1913