Monday, July 27, 2020

King Richard in Hagia Sophia

In February NPR ran an audio story titled "The Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia."

You get a sense for what it was like praying in the 6th century in one of the world's largest Catholic churches.

The story is worth a listen at
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago


Listen with good speakers or headphones. You'll get chills.


Richard the Lionheart at Mass in Hagia Sophia
by Gaspare Fossati (1849)

 

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