At 600 miles west of Ecuador there are arid islands in Pacific Ocean, which are called Galapagos Islands. These islands are famous for large tortoises weighing hundreds of pounds. But so many people don’t know that other fascinating creatures also live in an undersea realm offshore.
In 1924 William Beebe had written a book about Galapagos “ World’s End” in that he described the contrast between islands and their underwater generosity. He Wrote that host of sally-lightfoots were the most brilliant spots of color above the water in the islands, putting to shame the dull, drab hues of the terrestrial organisms and hinting at the glories of colorful animal life beneath the surface of the sea.
In Galapagos waters four currents converge:
- The Peru or Humboldt to from the south.
- The Equatorial from the West.
- The North Equatorial
- And the fourth is the Panama
The fish and other sea species from different oceans and habitat migrate to these currents and quickly makes themselves at home along the rocky shores, on a sandy sea bottom and in the mangrove forests of the Galapagos.
The most playful creature on the Galapagos Islands is the sea lions. Most of time they are slicing through the water with dazzling speed and sometimes it seems as they are dancing underwater, twisting, turning, stretching and arching their sleek bodies amid clouds of plankton.
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The Hagia Sophia is a sacred place for both great religions of the world Christian and Muslims. For Christians it was Hagia Sophia “Church of the Holy Wisdom”. It was the mother church of the Orthodox faith and of the thousand-year-old Byzantine Empire.
For Muslims it Ayasofya Camii means Mosque of Holy Wisdom and jewel of Istanbul.
But for the people of other faiths like in the words of 6th century historian Procopius it was having astonishing beauty, which attract the people so much.
History
Emperor Constantine expanded the Constantinople out to the shores of the Bosporus in 326 A.D. After 30 years of that expansion his successor built its first great church and it was named Hagia Sophia, but it stood only 172 years and it was burnt to ground by a violent crowds. That happened in 532 A.D. It occurred during the reign of Justinian the Builder, who would give the world the noblest kind “ tent of the heavens”. [click to continue…]
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