Sometimes, while traveling, you walk past something; it looks interesting, but it's not open. You poke your eyes and lens in as best you can, and grab a shot...and then, over the years following you keep coming back to the image and you know you have to return.
My two images of Vienna's "Greek Cathedral," really the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity fit that category. A brief glimpse on our last day in Vienna in 2003, a chandelier with what seems almost a mysterious glow and the ornate walls. We'll be in Vienna again next summer, and a visit is definitely on the list.
There's been an Orthodox church on this site on Fleischmarkt near the center of the Altstadt since Josef II's edict of tolerance in 1787. The present building was opened in 1858, and is the home of the Metropolitan of Austria, Hungary and Middle Europe.
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