Snow is falling on Istanbul tonight and more snowfall is on the way, according to State Meteorology Bureau forecasts.
While we're bracing for the blizzard, the cats of Hagia Sophia are warming themselves not in the hands of U.S. President Barack Obama, but this time in some other place inside the former church/former mosque/contemporary museum.
As can be seen from these photos that I've taken, Hagia Sophia cats chose the spotlights in front of the splendid mihrab to get warmer, posing like golden statues from the pharaoh tombs of the Ancient Egypt. This is how an Istanbul blizzard creates a multi-layered symbolism of various cultures and religions:
