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A Beautiful Church for Holy Cross Monastery in West Virginia

By Andrew Gould on October 1, 2019
A Beautiful Church for Holy Cross Monastery in West Virginia

With great pleasure, I have developed a design for a new church for the Hermitage of the Holy Cross in West Virginia. In many ways, this design is the culmination of 15 years of thought, research, and experimentation on my part, and encapsulates the best of my ideas for Orthodox church design. I would like […]

Posted in Architecture | Tagged Andrew Gould, Architecture, building, catholicon, Hermitage of the Holy Cross, Holy Cross Monastery, New Church, Russian Orthodox October 3, 2019

Heaven Is Round. Earth Is Square.

By Jonathan Pageau on November 13, 2014
Heaven Is Round.  Earth Is Square.

This is post 4 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” (This is the fourth part of a series.  Part 1: Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat.  Part 2: Where is Heaven?  Part 3: Heaven and Earth in The Icon) In my previous posts in this series I have discussed what Heaven […]

Posted in Architecture, Iconography, Liturgy, Theory, Vestments | Tagged Andrew Gould, Architecture, bible, building, cosmology, cosmos, dome, earth, flat earth, heaven, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, pantocrator, pendentive, sphere, square, square earth, Symbolism April 7, 2017
 

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