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Another prominent church in the capital, the Church of the Holy Apostles, which had been in a very poor state near the end of the 5th century, was likewise rebuilt.

Works of embellishment were not confined to churches alone: excavations at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople have yielded several high-quality mosaics dating from Justinian's reign, and a column topped by a bronze statue of Justinian on horseback and dressed in a military costume was erected in the Augustaeum in Constantinople in 543.

Rivalry with other, more established patrons from the Constantinopolitan and exiled Roman aristocracy ( like Anicia Juliana ) may have enforced Justinian's building activities in the capital as a means of strengthening his dynasty's prestige.