Wonderful Wednesday, St. Joseph Church: Known for its Thirteen Gold Domed Roof

By APOOO • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Wordless Wednesday • Email This Post Email This Post • Print This Post Print This Post

st-josephs-church

The St. Joseph The Betrothed  is an Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Chicago . Built in 1956, it is most known for its ultra-modern thirteen gold domed roof symbolizing the twelve apostles and Jesus Christ as the largest center dome. The interior of the church is completely adorned with Byzantine style icons (frescoes). Unfortunately the iconographer was deported back to his homeland before he was able to write the names of all the saints as prescribed by iconographic traditions.

Bookmarks
SubscribeDiggdel.icio.usFacebookNewsVineStumbleUponTechnorati

Related Posts

Tagged as:

APOOO is an online author and reader community dedicated to advancing African American literature. Our mission is to expose readers of all ages to a good book in any genre; to support African American authors, books, literary events and bookclubs; to provide marketing resources, tools and tips to authors; and, to promote literacy within the African American community.
Email this author | All posts by APOOO

6 Responses »

  1. GravatarLashonda Silver on March 25th, 2009 at 10:46 pm:

    This is an interesting looking church. I was shocked to read that it was in the US.

    Lashonda Silver´s last blog post..Finer Womanhood Week & Month

  2. GravatarAPOOO on March 25th, 2009 at 11:32 pm:

    Lashonda me 2.

  3. GravatarMs. Mary on March 26th, 2009 at 8:10 am:

    All I can say is wow…….

  4. GravatarTea on March 26th, 2009 at 8:49 am:

    Wow! I can’t believe it’s in Chicago. I like the golden domes. Thanks for showing it.

    Tea´s last blog post..Lisa Jackson Reader Fest

  5. GravatarRaven on March 29th, 2009 at 4:41 pm:

    I had no idea that this was a church!!

  6. GravatarAPOOO on March 29th, 2009 at 7:58 pm:

    Raven are you familiar with it?

Leave a Reply

CommentLuv Enabled