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[[Image:Apostles.jpg|right|thumb|An icon of the Holy [[Apostles]], after whom the church is named.]][[Image:Holy_Apostles_Constantinople.jpg|right|thumb|Church of the Holy Apostles 536-550AD]]The '''Church of the Holy [[Apostles]]''' (Greek: Άγιοι Απόστολοι - Aghioi Apostoloi), also known as the Imperial Polyandreion, was a Christian [[basilica]] built in Constantinople (then the capital of the Byzantine Empire) in 550 A.D. It was second only to the Church of the Holy Wisdom ([[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]]) among the great [[church]]es of the Eastern Empire. When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453, the Holy Apostles briefly became the seat of the Ecumenical [[Patriarch]] of the Greek Orthodox Church. In 1461, however, it was taken over by the Ottomans and demolished to make way for a mosque.
==History==