One of the most beautiful sights of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia (Church of Divine Wisdom). She is in the Sultanahmet district, near the Blue Mosque and Topkapi Museum. The Hagia Sophia is one of the largest churches in the world. By Emperor Constantine the Great in the 4th Been commissioned century inaugurated in 537 by Emperor Justinian, it is considered one of the most beautiful religious buildings of early Christianity and is one of the most important works of Byzantine art. Particularly impressive is the dome over the main vessel with 40-glazed windows with a vertical height of 55 m. After the conquest of Istanbul by Fatih Sultan Mehmet in 1453 it was converted into a mosque minarets and received 4. Since 1934, the Hagia Sophia is a museum.
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