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Constantinople’s Crowning Glory: Outshining Solomon’s Temple
Heaven on Earth: Suffused with light, the church – and, since 1453, mosque – of Hagia Sophia may be one of the most admired buildings in the world. At the sultan Mehmet IV remarked “It is the place where heavenly inspiration descends into the minds of the devout and which gives a foretaste even here below of the Garden of Eden".
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