Ruins· Fatih, İstanbul

Church of St. Polyeuktos

Ayios Polieuktos Kilisesi

Built501Styleancient Roman architecture

Church of St. Polyeuktos is a ruins in Fatih, İstanbul; The Church of St.

Ayios Polieuktos Kilisesi
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The Church of St. Polyeuctus was a Byzantine church in Constantinople, built by the noblewoman Anicia Juliana and dedicated to Saint Polyeuctus. A lavishly decorated building, it was the largest church in the city before the Hagia Sophia. It introduced the large-scale use of Sassanid Persian decorative elements and may have inaugurated the domed-basilica type later perfected in the Hagia Sophia.

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