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The red-brick Hagia Irene with its central dome, seen across the lawn of Topkapı Palace's first courtyard.
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Hagia Irene

Hagia Irene stands in the outer courtyard of Topkapı Palace and is the oldest known church building in Istanbul; the present brick structure dates from Justinian I's rebuilding after 532. Never turned into a mosque, it served the Ottomans as an arsenal and is now a museum and concert venue, with a large black cross from the Iconoclast period in the apse.

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