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The Historian · Zeynep · Istanbul

Hagia Sophia

Sultanahmet · Church-Mosque · $$

For a thousand years the largest domed space on earth. Everything I know about Istanbul, I measure against this room.

Justinian's 537 basilica — cathedral, then mosque, then museum, now a mosque again — the pivot of the whole city.

— Zeynep, The Historian
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