
ARCHITECTURE
The place we gather for worship is important. We want to make our worship space beautiful as a way of giving thanks to God, who provides all the beauty around us. The iconography at Sts. Constantine and Helen by Dmitri Shkolnik and his team continues to expand. The most recent additions were completed in November 2025.
Paideia Classics--Elizabeth Davis
Elizabeth Davis has been building a replica of a chapel next to St. Catherine's Monastery (shown here) using a very simple, inexpensive building system she developed using cattle panels, rebar, t-posts, hardware cloth, tarp, and cement. She is building smaller structures using the same materials, except with less cement and more earth plaster and cob. The method is basically sculpture, but on a large scale. A photo demonstration of this process will be provided at the Festival. Its value is that it is possible to build a replica of an ancient chapel with little money and simple materials; Paideia Classics will also be providing these embroidered linens made by the Bedouins in the Sinai near St. Catherine's Monastery. The icons shown here are carved in Slovakia, and samples will also be presented.
