Peter Mark Adams on the secrets contained within Istanbul's Hagia Sophia.

In Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos: Spiritual Dissent in an Age of Tyranny, Peter Mark Adams presents a remarkable study of the esoteric beliefs and spiritual traditions contained within the architectural and decorative features of Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia.

As with Adams’s previous books, this is a meticulously researched, captivating and illuminating piece of work. Punctuated with carefully selected, evocative photography and illustrations, it deconstructs the Hagia Sophia to reveal its esoteric heart.

He builds the case that the pythagorean cosmogony in Plato’s Timaeus was foundational to the beliefs of the buildings designers and could be found hidden in plain sight in their magnum opus, the Hagia Sophia.