  Topological- and strongly-correlated- materials are exciting frontiers in
condensed matter physics, married prominently in studies of the fractional
quantum hall effect [1]. There is an active effort to develop synthetic
materials where the microscopic dynamics and ordering arising from the
interplay of topology and interaction may be directly explored. In this work we
demonstrate a novel architecture for exploration of topological matter
constructed from tunnel-coupled, time-reversalbroken microwave cavities that
are both low loss and compatible with Josephson junction-mediated interactions
[2]. Following our proposed protocol [3] we implement a square lattice
Hofstadter model at a quarter flux per plaquette ({\alpha} = 1/4), with
time-reversal symmetry broken through the chiral Wannier-orbital of resonators
coupled to Yttrium-Iron-Garnet spheres. We demonstrate site-resolved
spectroscopy of the lattice, time-resolved dynamics of its edge channels, and a
direct measurement of the dispersion of the edge channels. Finally, we
demonstrate the flexibility of the approach by erecting a tunnel barrier
investigating dynamics across it. With the introduction of Josephson-junctions
to mediate interactions between photons, this platform is poised to explore
strongly correlated topological quantum science for the first time in a
synthetic system.
