of which only fragments survive. Although there are brief mentions of the building in a variety of sources, the accounts of Procopius, Constantine of Rhodes, and Nicholas Mesarites are the only substantial textual descriptions of the building's appearance to have survived. Churches such as the Basilica of St. John, St Mark's Basilica, the Cathédrale Saint-Front, and the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua are believed to have been modelled on Justinian's Holy Apostles but differ from each other significantly. Burials The church's mausoleums were the resting place for most Eastern Roman emperors and members of their families for seven centuries, beginning with Constantine I (d. 337) and ending with Constantine VIII (d. 1028). With no more space available, emperors began to be buried in other churches and monasteries around the city. The tombs in the church of Holy Apostles are known only from lists in literary sources, one of which is contained in De Ceremoniis. Although the sarcophagi of the emperors were raided by Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, some of the oldest porphyry sarcophagi have survived: two in the atrium of the Hagia Eirene, four outside the Archaeological Museum, and a fragment of a seventh in the museum's "Istanbul through the Ages" pavilion; this fragment is believed to be from the sarcophagus of Constantine I. Among those buried in the church were: Constantine I (337) Constantius II (361) Julian (363) Jovian (364) and his wife Charito Valentinian I (375) and his wife Marina Severa Theodosius I (395) Marcian (457) and Pulcheria (453) Ariadne (515) Anastasius I (518) Justinian I (565), Theodora (548) Ino Anastasia (593) Heraclius (641) Eudokia (612) Fausta (668) Anastasia (711) Anastasios II (719) Eudokia Irene of Athens (803) Leo VI the Wise (912) and his three wives (Theophano Martiniake (893), Zoe Zaoutzaina (899), Eudokia Baïana (901)) Eudokia Ingerina (882) Nikephoros II (969) Constantine VIII (1028) Zoe Porphyrogenita (1050) Theodora (1056) The bodies of Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople and Patriarch Cyriacus II of Constantinople were also buried there. See also History of Roman and Byzantine domes List of Roman domes Roman architecture Byzantine architecture Byzantine empire Constantinople Eulalios Hagia Sophia Church (building) Church architecture Basilica References Citations Sources Further reading Ken Dark and Ferudun Özgümüş, 'New Evidence for the Byzantine Church of the Holy Apostles from Fatih Camii, Istanbul', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 21 (2002), 393-413 Glanville Downey, 'The Tombs of the Byzantine Emperors