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Sometimes you just feel that a certain place has something, a vibe, an energy, well something 😆
This place has that something 🙏
Hagia Sophia (lit. 'Holy Wisdom'; Turkish: Ayasofya; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya Camii), originally a Christian church, is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The building was erected three times by the Eastern Roman Empire. The present Hagia Sophia is the third, built in 537 AD. It was an Orthodox church until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, then a mosque until 1935, then a museum and then from 2020 a mosque again, as well as being a Roman Catholic cathedral for some decades after the Fourth Crusade of 1204.
The current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire between 532 and 537, and was designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. It was formally called the Church of the Holy Wisdom (Greek: Ναὸς τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, romanized: Naòs tês Hagías toû Theoû Sophías) and upon completion became the world's largest interior space and among the first to employ a fully pendentive dome. It is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture". The present Justinianic building was the third church of the same name to occupy the site, as the prior one had been destroyed in the Nika riots. As the episcopal see of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, it remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. Beginning with subsequent Byzantine architecture, Hagia Sophia became the paradigmatic Orthodox church form, and its architectural style was emulated by Ottoman mosques a thousand years later. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as an architectural and cultural icon of Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox civilization.
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An old cabin we found on our way hiking today. Not quite sure if it was meant for sleeping, but it sure was cute.
I have no idea but the architecture here is so fun to look at and wonder. I’m assuming it was a warehouse as railroad tracks run only a few feet from it. Located down a quiet street on the way to Captain Scott’s in New London, CT.
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This fine Building was built in 1810 and is one of the last surviving Buildings of its Era in East Hull ..It was known as Sutton Hall until it ceased to be a private residence in the 1940s..It later became a Care Home ..
“The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson.” - Hp Lyrikz.
It was a bit of a grey day for a drive in Grey County. But I love the bit of light that made the center of this old home glow. One of my goals this winter was to finish up the series of 6 little books about our ancestors with stories and old photographs that I digitized. I am working on the last book now and our daughters have received the first 4 books. One daughter said " How do I know NOTHING about them? How unfair that our developing brains are so self-indulgent and self-obsessed that we couldn't appreciate that they had incredible lives while they were alive to talk about it!!!"
I certainly have learned more about our ancestors by going through documents and photographs carefully....now that I have the time. It feels good to pass on these stories to the next generations.
I have photographed this building before. It must have great "bones" as it is still standing!