Part of Series Windows of Heaven. Most famous glass coin series! The Windows of Heaven series is one of the most famous series with inserted glass in the world. Each issue figure out a famous window in a holy place all over the world. The fulminate start with a window of the Cologne Cathedral started a many years success for this series. The high detailed inserted glass combined with the high quality minting makes this coins unique in the coin market. Famous in particular for its massive dome, the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey, is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have “changed the history of architecture”. It remained the world’s largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. The reverse features an exterior image of the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul, with a plan of the layout of the building to the side. In the middle is a section, taken from within the cathedral, showing a beautifully designed stained-glass window. The obverse shows the stained-glass showing the image as seen from the inside of the church. The item “Windows of Heaven Hagia Sophia 50 g Proof Silver Coin Cook Islands 2016″ is in sale since Sunday, October 02, 2016. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Australia & Oceania\South Pacific”. The seller is “dazzlingcoins_com” and is located in Canada. This item can be shipped worldwide.