Question

A Baroque-era four-tiered bell tower for a building dedicated to this figure has a blue facade adorned with floral stucco ornaments. The Virgin Orans mosaic resides on the “Indestructible Wall” of a building dedicated to this figure in Kyiv, whose teal cupolas were added in Ivan Mazeppa’s restorations. Visitors compared the Proconnesian marble floor of a church dedicated to this figure to the moving water of the sea. Black-winged (*) seraphim adorn the four triangular supports of a church dedicated to this figure, which are needed because its circular dome sits over a square space. Isidorus of Miletus (10[1])designed that building dedicated to this (10[1])figure, which later had minarets added under (10[1])Mimar Sinan. For 10 points, name this feminine personification of divine wisdom, the dedicatee of a Byzantine church-turned-mosque in Istanbul. ■END■

ANSWER: Saint Sophia [accept Hagia Sophia or Ayasofya; accept Holy Wisdom until “wisdom” is read] (The first two clues are about St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv.)
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Mattias EhathammWaterlooMcDouble West-Carleton9610
Sky LiToronto Ray of Sun in the SkyOttawa B10210
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawa AOttawa C10910

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