{
 "id": "building/kucuk-ayasofya",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "kucuk-ayasofya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "جامع كوتشوك آيا صوفيا",
  "en": "Küçük Ayasofya Mosque (Saints Sergius and Bacchus)",
  "ur": "مسجد کوچک ایاصوفیہ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جامع كوتشوك آيا صوفيا بإسطنبول؛ الكنيسة البيزنطية للقديسين سرجيوس وباخوس التي بناها جوستينيان قبل آيا صوفيا بقليل، وحُوّلت جامعًا بعد الفتح العثماني؛ أصّل مخططها المثمّن المحاط لمخطط الجوامع العثمانية {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}.",
  "en": "The Kucuk Ayasofya Mosque of Istanbul; the Byzantine church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus erected by Justinian shortly before Haghia Sophia, converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest; its inscribed-octagon plan was a prototype for Ottoman mosque plans {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/gunpowder-empires"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q1144576"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/freely-ottoman-architecture-2011"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "wikidata-import deferred Q1144576; Freely 2011 Sergius-and-Bacchus passage verified in OCR (p. ~104)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "run": "wd-deferred-6"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جامع كوتشوك آيا صوفيا كان كنيسة القديسين سرجيوس وباخوس البيزنطية التي بناها جوستينيان قبل آيا صوفيا بقليل، وحُوّلت جامعًا بعد الفتح العثماني؛ أصّل مخططها المثمّن المحاط بالمربع لمخططات الجوامع العثمانية {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "العمارة",
     "markdown": "يرى فريلي أن مخطط المثمّن المحاط في مربع المكسو بقبة — أصله كنيسة سرجيوس وباخوس — هو النموذج الأول لمخطط الجوامع العثمانية {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/kucuk-ayasofya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Kucuk Ayasofya Mosque was the Byzantine church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, erected by Justinian shortly before Haghia Sophia and converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest; its octagon-inscribed-in-square plan was a prototype for Ottoman mosque plans {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the sources",
     "markdown": "Freely sees the inscribed polygon covered by a dome — prototyped by Saints Sergius and Bacchus — as the ancestor of the Ottoman mosque plan {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/kucuk-ayasofya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "کوچک ایاصوفیہ مسجد بازنطینی کلیسا سنت سرجیوس و باخوس تھی جسے جسٹینین نے ایاصوفیہ سے کچھ پہلے بنوایا اور عثمانی فتح کے بعد مسجد میں بدل دی گئی؛ اس کا مربع میں مضمّن ہشت پہلو مخطط عثمانی مساجد کے نقشے کا نمونہ بنا {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ میں",
     "markdown": "فریلی گنبد سے ڈھکا کثیرالاضلاع مخطط — جس کا نمونہ سنت سرجیوس و باخوس ہے — کو عثمانی مسجد کے نقشے کا سرچشمہ مانتا ہے {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/kucuk-ayasofya",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/abu-dulaf-mosque-samarra",
  "building/adana-great-mosque",
  "building/ahi-celebi-mosque",
  "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
  "building/al-attarine-madrasa",
  "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
  "building/al-janad-mosque",
  "building/al-mansur-mosque-marrakesh"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}