Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church

Rowland J. Mainstone was a structural engineer as well as an architectural historian, and this Thames and Hudson book is his academic monograph on the architecture, structural engineering and liturgical use of Justinian's Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Its strength is Mainstone's unusual dual expertise, he could analyze the building's actual structural engineering, including its famous dome and the repairs it required after partial collapse, with the same rigor he brought to its architectural and liturgical history. Its limit is that it is focused on the building's Byzantine-era construction and use, so a claim about its later history as a mosque or museum under Ottoman and Turkish administration needs a source addressing that later period specifically.