By using the sol-gel process, free base porphyrin doped silica and silica/titania, gels, monoliths, and glasses, with up to 20 wt.% titania, have been synthesised. The monoliths were characterised by BET isotherms, X-Ray spectroscopy, and AFM spectroscopy. Absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic measurements indicate that, in Si and Si/Ti-monoliths an equilibrium between the free base hematoporphyrin IX and its dicationic form exists. By additionally doping of pyrene as a donor dye, the energy transfer to hematoporphyrin IX as acceptor was investigated. Stern-Volmer quenching of the fluorescence of pyrene was found in monoliths.