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Inside the Hagia Sophia

DSC_3823_4_5.jpg Dome of the Hagia SophiaThumbnailsByzantine graffiti in a railing at the Hagia SophiaDome of the Hagia SophiaThumbnailsByzantine graffiti in a railing at the Hagia SophiaDome of the Hagia SophiaThumbnailsByzantine graffiti in a railing at the Hagia SophiaDome of the Hagia SophiaThumbnailsByzantine graffiti in a railing at the Hagia Sophia

Completed in 537 AD, this was the largest Christian cathedral in the world for almost 1000 years. After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it became a mosque. It is now a museum.

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