Daily Prompt: The Power of Touch_Year 1166 Records

Texture abound in Istanbul, Turkey. Last month, I spent hours at Hagia Sophia, touched and felt some of what I saw and looked at with awe. I traveled back in time…somehow.

Touching the slab…. It is described as a record of decisions passed by a supreme religious assembly held at Hagia Sophia in 1166.

Though just a copy, there was that feeling of riding back in time by merely looking at them.

Size of the slabs in the 3rd photo above can be gauged by the height of the man standing in front of the tomb near the synod records

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