February 4, 2019 What Is an Oklad for an Icon? The Workshop of St. Elisabeth Convent Shows and Explains There is a lot to be said about the Icon Casing Workshop of St. Elisabeth Convent. First of all, there are a couple of questions that…
November 13, 2018 Soul Warmers, or Where Plush Friends Come From: the Unique Textile Workshop of St. Elisabeth Convent How do toys come to be? Of course, they are brought to us by a stork right into a bed… where children find…
November 8, 2018 Non-Ferrous Metals Workshop: How the Craftspeople of St. Elisabeth Convent Create High-quality Church Goods “Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house.” A godly heart feels God’s beauty and tries to multiply it and spread it around….
October 23, 2018 How Icons Are Born in the Icon-painting Studio of St. Elisabeth Convent People often ask a lot of questions concerning the icons created by the icon-painters of St. Elisabeth Convent and iconography in general. Why does…
August 16, 2018 Our Icon Painters Have Painted a Full-Figure Icon for a Church in Canada An icon of Saint Mardarije of Libertyville and Saint Sebastian of Jackson will soon appear in the Church in honour of All Saints of…
July 25, 2018 The Lord is our Main Craftsman: A Large Photo Blog about the Working Process in the Mosaic Workshop The Church on Blood is built on the place of Ipatiev house, where the members of the family of Tsar Nicholas II spent their…
July 6, 2018 Helping a Nursing Mom. A Comfort Toy – a New Item Made by the Toy Workshops of St. Elisabeth Convent for Newborn Children “A mother’s touch” – this is the name of the new items created in the toy workshops of St. Elisabeth Convent. It has the…
April 25, 2018 Reclamation and Redemption at the Men’s Farmstead of St. Elisabeth Convent Although I spent two years in seminary—and thus, in church services with a lot of men—I wasn’t prepared for the demographics inside the church…
February 6, 2018 Workshop of St. Elisabeth Convent Creates Stained-Glass Windows for other Churches The churches of St. Nicholas Convent will be decorated by the stained-glass windows created by the workshops of our convent. The craftspeople are working…