Church of the Holy Apostles
Church · Burial place
church and imperial mausoleum in Turkey
Location: 41.0197, 28.9497
What this place is
- Church — the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople — "church and imperial mausoleum"
- Burial place — and the imperial mausoleum: Constantine and his successors, and where Andrew, Luke and Timothy were laid
Who is recorded here
- Andrew the Apostle burial · AD 60
- Saint Timothy burial · AD 97
- Constantine the Great burial · AD 337
- Theodosius I burial · AD 395
- Pulcheria burial · AD 453
- Marcian burial · AD 457
- Zeno burial · AD 491
- Anastasius I Dicorus burial · AD 518
- Justinian I burial · AD 565
- Cyriacus II of Constantinople burial · AD 606
- Irene of Athens burial · AD 803
- Nikephoros I of Constantinople burial · AD 828
- Michael III burial · AD 867
- Eudokia Ingerina burial · AD 882
- Theophano Martiniake burial · AD 897
- Leo VI the Wise burial · AD 912
- Konstantinos VII burial · AD 959
In art
About the place
The Church of the Holy Apostles, also known as the Imperial Polyandrion, was a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox church in Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. The first structure dated to the 4th century, though future emperors would add to and improve upon it.
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