A Quest for Community
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
We walked in hushed silence through the passageway for what seemed like a long way, passing several side-passages and closed wooden doors from which we could hear the muffled sounds of strange melodies and mysterious chanting. Then our guide beckoned to us to take a sharp turn into a short hallway that ended in a low open door though which we could see a stone staircase. We had to bend our heads to enter through the door and then carefully climb the narrow steps. When we reached the top and were able to look up, we discovered we were inside a huge chamber of mirrored walls crowned with a magnificent Tiffany glass cupola, the largest in the world. This was the Hall of Mirrors, a space of 1,200 cubic meters, dedicated to the sky, the air and the light.
