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Panoramic Miller Cylindrical 3D photo work and a view of interior Hagia Sophia in Şehr-i İstanbul, Turkey. In 1204 the cathedral was ruthlessly attacked, desecrated and plundered by the Crusaders ~Turkish: Haçlı Seferleri, who also ousted the Patriarch of Constantinople and replaced him with a Latin bishop. This event cemented the division of the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches that had begun with the Great Schism of 1054. It also means that most of Hagia Sophia's riches can be seen today not in Istanbul, but in the treasury of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice.