Shawn Tribe at the Liturgical Arts Journal has an interesting post about the internal arrangements of Hagia Sophia as the patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople before 1453. He makes the valuable point that until 1054 it functioned as that within an officially undivided Church - a longer period of 517 years than it has served as a mosque, never mind the period after 1054 when in was a church that was exclusively Greek (1054-1204, 1261-1453 ) or Latin ( 1204-1261).
His illustrated post can be viewed at The Historical Christian Arrangement of Hagia Sophia
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