NWBStudios Archives – Orthodox Arts Journal

Woodwork for a Coptic Church in America

By Andrew Gould | January 24, 2015

I have recently had the pleasure of making an altar set for a Coptic church. This project was somewhat of a challenge for me because the Coptic Church and her liturgical art is not my area of expertise. I had to learn about both the liturgical implements and the historical styles of woodwork unique to…

A Choros Chandelier for a Timber Frame Church

By Andrew Gould | January 9, 2014 |

During the fall and winter of 2013, I had the marvelous opportunity to make and install a choros chandelier for St. Thomas the Apostle Orthodox Church in Waldorf, Maryland (a parish of the American Carpatho-Russian Diocese). The project was my second large articulated choros (the first, in South Carolina, was described in this article from…