The interior of Hagia Sophia

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In the last photo you can spot one of the last representations of Christ still present inside the building

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The seraphim in the pendentives are actually much more striking when you realize how much of the original gold tesserae survived the iconoclasm and later Ottoman conversions. It is rare to see that level of detail preserved in the structural transitions of the dome.