Hagia Sophia

The Church of the Holy Wisdom, known as Hagia Sophia (Άγια Σοφία) in Greek, Sancta Sophia in Latin, and Ayasofya or Aya Sofya in Turkish, is a former Byzantine church and former Ottoman mosque in Istanbul. Now a museum, Hagia Sophia is universally acknowledged as one of the great buildings of the world. 

(text from: www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/istanbul-hagia-sophia)

(photo: taken in September, 2011, when Cheri and I visited Istanbul)

"I find you, Lord, in all things and in all

my fellow creatures, pulsing with your life;

as a tiny seed you sleep in what is small

and in what is vast you vastly yield yourself."

~Rilke