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For nearly a thousand years the largest enclosed space in the world, Hagia Sophia stands as one of the supreme achievements of human building and a monument layered with the history of two great faiths and empires. It was raised in the sixth century by the Byzantine emperor Justinian, who is said to have exclaimed on its completion that he had outdone Solomon, and its vast dome, seeming to float on a ring of windows above the central space, transformed the architecture of its age and astonished ...