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title: "Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul) — Holy places"
description: "The Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom built under Justinian in 532–537; the chief church of Byzantium until 1453. Now functioning as a mosque (since 2020), open to…"
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# Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul)

The Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom built under Justinian in 532–537; the chief church of Byzantium until 1453. Now functioning as a mosque (since 2020), open to visitors.

[Open in Maps](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.0086&mlon=28.9802#map=15/41.0086/28.9802) [Byzantium and the Liturgy](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/history-byzantium)

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- [Byzantium and the Liturgy](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/history-byzantium)