Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is still a staggering building, nearly 1,500 years after it was built. The scale, the vistas and spaces are still awe-inspiring today just as intended by its creator, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, in the early sixth century. It remained the largest building of its type for almost a thousand years and was over 1,100 years old before St Paul's Cathedral was built.
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