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The early church that gave prominence to the life of the Virgin Mary in its decorative program was the Christian church in the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople (modern-day Turkey).
The Byzantine Empire was a very religious empire that supported the religious teachings of Christianity. In his Justinian codes, emperor Justinian made a lot of emphasis on religion.
Byzantines built magnificent churches and developed a peculiar form of art using mosaics to decorate churches, as was the case of the magnificent Haga Sophia church that included the Theotokos mosaic of the Virgin Mary and her child, Jesus.
