A little bit about the union with God: dervishes’ dance
A small room saturated with the smell of parquet and lacquer. The center of the room is fenced with unremarkable wooden chairs as in assembly halls of Soviet schools. And as in the first class you are shy to sit on the front row, almost feeling like on the stage.…
A little bit about the border between 2 worlds: Bosporus
Could it have been better as to separate one world from another, one culture from another by running cold water of 2 seas — the Black and Marmora? Could it have been better as to combine them by placing on the banks of the strait which flows in both directions? The currents…
A little bit about the city of minarets: mosques in Istanbul
Istanbul is the city with dozens of names, city that beheld rises and fall of entire empires. It is giant ancient capital absorbed the breath of centuries. There is no city in the world like this, the city aspiring to the sky with thousands of minarets sprouting out of the…