I had heard a lot about the Hagia Sofia (Aya Sofia) and was really excited to see it. However, the building somehow loses to the grand image people have built up. But then you realise that it's not a modern building but a structure made in the year 537. The old basilica was made in 404 over the remains of which the new one was constructed. Just to be walking on the same stones that people 1500 years ago walked on just gives you a sensation of the deep history. Your spine tingles. I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen when you look at the pics I've posted. Mine still does!
This church was the biggest church in all of christiandom when it was completed in 537 until the St. Peters Church in Rome - more than a THOUSAND years later.
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