The Mosqueteers

The most fascinating thing about being in a mosque is how much smaller people are when shoeless. The size and grandeur of the buildings accentuates this so that gazing across the vast interior we appear to be a gathering of some pigmy race. The women especially, without heels and with hair confined  beneath their head-coverings, seem shrunken and almost childlike. The increased sense of humility that this reduction in stature induces is no doubt an intentional outcome, serving to amplify the gulf between man and divinity or between petty everyday consciousness and sublime imagination.