ENTRY TYPE
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SUMMARY
The Church of the Holy Apostles was the second most important church in Byzantine Constantinople, after Hagia Sophia. Under Justinian I, the 4th-c. cruciform building fallen in disrepare was replaced by a new, also cruciform, structure with an elevation of five domes. It was used as the burial place of the emperors until 1028, and was demolished after the Ottoman conquest in 1453, in order to erect Fatih Camii on the same site. In 2001, structural evidence that most probably belong to the Byzantine church were discovered at the foundation of Fatih Camii, providing the basis for further research on a monument considered lost. |
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