It was quite an experience to be able to go inside of the Hagia Sophia, something I had studied in school. It was breaktaking and so immense in size. It would have been spectacular back in it's day covered in golden mosaics. As we walked through, you could see the layers of history from the conversion from Church to Mosque in 1453. Sadly, these first pictures we took were all on 2 mega pixels and because it was so dark, a good picture was somewhat hard to take but it was incredible and reminded me of all those visits to the cold, echoe-y cathedrals in England. What's amazing is how old it is and what a feat of engineering and design it was so many hundreds of years ago. Yes, tis true that the outside is a wee bit tatered compared to the grand Blue Mosque mirroring it across the street, but there is something so rustic and mystical about this building.
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