Tatiana Veselkina
Rating: 9.2|Votes: 11
I stood at one side and marveled at the mosaic shining in the sunlight, the tile-work of the church rising to the sky… St John the Baptist Cathedral in America’s capital was built in the Muscovite-Yaroslavl style of the 17th century, like a carved statuette sitting in the palm of one’s hand. There are only a handful of such churches in Orthodox America. How is it that a church devoted to such a sad event came to be in this intellectual, refined city of Washington?
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Everything inside the small church was decorated in gold, dark greens and deep reds. It was hard to believe that this was once the inside of a garage and that Habib’s office next door was once part of someone’s house.
There is no sign of the hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims who flock here every November. The only noise disturbing the quiet of the Monastery of Mar Girgis these days is the call for prayers blaring from the nearby mosque.
Rating: 1|Votes: 1
The vibrant images are more than art; they are instruments for transmitting Christian tradition and faith.
Nun Cornelia (Rees), Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel Bunge
Rating: 8.9|Votes: 59
There are so many traces of the undivided Church, the beginnings of Christianity, and by these very archeological facts, I was “pushed” to dig deeper into the foundations of the Church. I am a historian by formation, a numismatic.