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Hagia Sophia



Hagia Sophia, or Santa Sophia, massive cathedral raised in Constantinople (now Istanbul) by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I; completed in A.D. 537. Its name means “Holy Wisdom” in Greek, and it was the greatest achievement of Byzantine architecture. Turned into a mosque after the Turkish conquest (1453), it is now a museum.



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