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Indoor Heavens The dome of Istanbul's Aya Sofya has always been its most amazing feature: daringly broad (for the 6th century, when it was built). I've always found it amazing that the windows around the base of the dome are an important reason for its strength. I would have thought just the opposite. But age does ravage even the strongest buildings, which is why the scaffolding has been erected: to repair the mosaics you see here gleaming in the dome. The goal is to restore them to the beauty they possessed in Byzantine times. In this photo the scaffolding is actually rather dramatic, amost an asset to the image....
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