Hagia Sophia consecrated
Justinian builds Christendom's largest church for a millennium
Justinian I built in five years a cathedral in Constantinople crowned by a vast dome about 31 m across; for nearly a thousand years it was the largest church in Christendom. After 1453 it became a mosque, in 1934 a museum and in 2020 a mosque again.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 529–534 Code of Justinian — 8 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Justinian I (aged 55)
- Aryabhata (aged 61)
- Theodora (aged 37)
- Khosrow I (aged 36)