What is particularly remarkable about Hagia Sophia's structure?
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Its spacious nave is covered by a lofty central dome carried on pendentives , a device not previously employed in monumental construction. Pendentives make possible support of the dome on a square framework of four huge equal arches resting on huge piers. The arches at the east and west are extended and buttressed by great half domes, while the half domes in turn are carried on smaller semidomed exedrae.
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