圣索非亚大教堂

Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istanbul)

to dig

old variant of 聖|圣[sheng4]

holy / sacred / saint / sage

surname Suo / abbr. for 索馬里|索马里[Suo3 ma3 li3], Somalia

to search / to demand / to ask / to exact / large rope / isolated

abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa

to not be; not / wrong; incorrect / non-; un-; in-; de- / to reproach; to blame / (coll.) to insist on; simply must

Hagia Sophia (Greek: Holy wisdom)

Sofia, capital of Bulgaria

Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3]

second / next to / inferior / sub- / Taiwan pr. [ya3]

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

surname Jiao

to teach

religion / teaching / to make / to cause / to tell

cathedral

church / chapel / CL:間|间[jian1]

(main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL:間|间[jian1] / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture