3D print the Little Hagia Sophia
A free, printable model of Little Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine church later converted into a mosque in Istanbul, with its central dome and the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 9 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
9 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Small footprint
The church sits on a compact footprint, so a larger print makes the outline easier to read. Use 0.12–0.16 mm layers to keep the wall edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Little Hagia Sophia is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Little Hagia Sophia takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Little Hagia Sophia
Little Hagia Sophia is a mosque in Istanbul that began as a Greek Orthodox church dedicated to Saints Sergius and Bacchus, two Syrian Christian saints. It lies in Fatih district, in Kumkapı, a short way from the Marmara Sea and close to the ruined Great Palace. Scholars disagree on when work started: some say the mid-520s, others between 532 and 536.
Justinian erected the Byzantine church in the sixth century on a central dome plan. An octagonal body sits inside an irregular quadrilateral, crowned by an umbrella dome of sixteen compartments on eight polygonal pillars. A two-story colonnade lines the north, west and south sides, its columns alternating verd antique and red Synnadic marble.
Under Ottoman rule, between 1506 and 1513, the church became a mosque and gained a portico and madrasah. Its minaret went up in 1762, came down in 1940 and was rebuilt in 1956. Earthquakes and the railway damaged the building over the years, but a restoration that ended in September 2006 reopened it to visitors and worshippers. Despite the name, it probably was not a template for Hagia Sophia, although the two went up at about the same time.
About this model
The Little Hagia Sophia is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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