Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ayasofya Mosque

Ayasofya Mosque (1852)

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Original – The interior of the Ayasofya Mosque from 1852, when it was an active mosque, and before the restoration that attempted to compromise between the mosque and the Hagia Sophia church that was converted into a mosque.

Reason

This gorgeous image helps show what the Ayasofya Mosque/Hagia Sophia looked like when it was a mosque, something no modern photograph could do. Better yet, it's made by a notable lithographer in combination with one of the people in charge of the mosque's renovations. Comparison to this very awful photograph will show that it's quite accurate in proportions and depictions. I cropped it about as tightly as the image layout allowed, without cropping parts of the image as printed by a notable lithographer.

Articles in which this image appears

Hagia Sophia

FP category for this image

Unless we want to class this under history, I'd say Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors

Creator

Gaspare Fossati and Louis Haghe; restoration by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:14, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Good work. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:18, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support very valuable IMO. All per nom. - Blieusong (talk) 11:36, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support – Editør (talk) 14:49, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support Jee 08:30, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support I'm not entirely convinced that the artist got the dimensions 100% right here, but it's of good quality and has very strong EV Nick-D (talk) 09:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Gaspare Fossati - Louis Haghe - Vue générale de la grande nef, en regardant l'occident (Hagia Sophia - Ayasofya Mosque nave).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:36, 26 June 2014 (UTC)