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If you take the 38 bus from downtown San Francisco and get off at 26th Avenue, you can look across the street and see a Russian Orthodox church. Sitting right in the middle of a hectic urban neighborhood of shops and traffic, it is a beautiful white church with golden domes that absolutely glisten in the sunlight. Gold is the color which represents heaven. It draws your mind to thoughts of things heavenly. Beautiful icon-style paintings adorn the outside of the building. The whole appearance of the church is bright and inviting.
If you step inside, your senses are jolted by the darkened interior. There is an entry way similar to our narthex. In Russian Orthodox churches it is called an iconostasis. It separates the inside of the church from the outside world. It is intended to stop physical sight, and allow worshipers to achieve spiritual sight.
