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 necessary because its circular dome sits over a square space. Isidorus of Miletus designed that building dedicated to this figure, (10[2])which later had minarets added under Mimar Sinan. (10[1])For 10 points, name this feminine personification (10[1])of divine wisdom, the dedicatee of a Byzantine (10[1])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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