New Iconography studio and chapel consecrated at St. Tikhon’s Monastery

Waymart, Pennsylvania, May 27, 2024

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Two years after construction began, the new icon studio school and chapel at St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Monastery in Waymart, Pennsylvania, was consecrated over the weekend.

The abbot, Schema-Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer), and the monastery brotherhood broke ground on the studio school on June 4, 2022.

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And this weekend, as part of the monastery’s 120th annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage, the school and chapel were consecrated by His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, the primate of the Orthodox Church in America, the monastery reports.

Photo: Facebook Photo: Facebook The monastery’s iconography program launched its pilot year last year under the tutelage of iconographers Anton and Ekaterina Daineko. Learn more about the program, with the possibility of a 3-year residency, at stmarts.org.

St. Tikhon’s also offers a music residency program, and launched a comprehensive liturgical music resource in 2021.

Founded by the future Patriarch St. Tikhon of Moscow, St. Tikhon’s Monastery is the oldest Orthodox monastery in America. Since then, it has served the Church in America with daily Liturgies and the associated St. Tikhon’s Theological Seminary.

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5/27/2024

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