There were two Senate houses in Constantinople; one, built by Constantine and restored by Justinian, was on the east side of the Augustaion, close to the Imperial Palace, at Magnaura, whilst the other was on the north side of the Forum of Constantine. The Senate lost its houses in the 6th century and from then on assembled in the Great Palace of Constantinople.

This one is based on a drawing by Antoine Helbert, depicting the one near the Great Palace before the Nika Riot fires. It is for this reason that it is depicted in late Western Roman style and not Eastern Roman style.