"Where Love Is, God Is" (sometimes also translated as Where Love Is, There God Is Also) is a short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 by Russia

Russia

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n author Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

. The title references the Catholic hymn Ubi Caritas

Ubi caritas

Ubi caritas is a hymn of the Western Church, long used as one of the antiphons for the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday. The Gregorian melody was composed sometime between the fourth and tenth centuries, though some scholars believe the text dates from early Christian gatherings before the...

. One English translation of this short story as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole

Nathan Haskell Dole

Nathan Haskell Dole was an American editor, translator, and author. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated from Harvard University in 1874. He was a writer and journalist in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston...

 uses the alternate title translation of "Where Love Is, There God Is Also". It was published in the United States under Crowell Company's "Worth While Booklet" Series.

Shoemaker Martin (1997), a children's book by Brigitte Hanhart, is based on this Where Love Is, God Is.

Adaptations

It was adapted into television series, Katha Sagar

Katha Sagar

Katha Sagar was a popular Indian television series that aired on DD National in 1986. The series was directed by Shyam Benegal along with many renowned directors. The series featured a collection of stories by world famous short story writers such as Guy De Maupassant, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo...

(1986), Episode Patiksha, directed by Ved Rahi

Ved Rahi

Ved Rahi is an Indian film director who made the film Veer Savarkar , a bio-epic on the life of Indian revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. He also directed Doordarshan show Gul Gulshan Gulfaam. Recently, his novel Lal Ded, based on the life of Kashmiri saint poetess of the same name, was...

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