Upon completion, the Seville Cathedral replaced this building as the largest church in the world.
Upon completion, the Seville Cathedral replaced this building as the largest church in the world. The semicircular niches with open arcades attached to the half-domes in this building make it somewhat similar to contemporary San Vitale, while its interior contains such decorations as the Deesis mosaic and the depiction of Christ Pantocrator on the underside of its most famous feature. Designed by Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, this building combines a longitudinal axis with a central-plan church, and is remarkable for its use of pendentives to support its large dome. Converted into a mosque in 1453, for ten points, identify this most famous of Byzantine churches, located in present-day Istanbul.
Upon completion, the Seville Cathedral replaced this building as the largest church in the world.
{Hagia Sophia} or {Church of the Holy Wisdom} or {Ayasofya}