Photographs of Dormition Cathedral

The Monastery Grounds


The Nave of the Dormition Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church in America.


As one proceeds into the Nave, the choros and apses come into focus.


Christ the Saviour of Souls, the Sweet Kissing Mother of God and the Royal Doors.


The Dome and Southern Apse.


Dome, Detail: Pantocrator, Christ, the Almighty.


The transverse of the Southern Apse, depicting scenes proceeding the Nativity of Christ.


Detail of the Annunciation. South Apse.


The Nativity. The Christological Cycle begins in the South Apse with the Nativity of Christ.


The Resurrection. The Christological Cycle in the Nave concludes in the North Apse with the Resurrection of Christ.


The south ceiling and walls, adjacent to the iconostasion, depicting the Holy Tile, six of the twelve Apostles, Old Testament figures, and Syrian Saints.


The Righteous Jacob, South Arch.


The north ceiling and walls, adjacent to the iconostasion, depicting the Holy Napkin, six of the twelve Apostles, Old Testament figures, and Syrian Saints.



The Holy Sanctuary and Altar Table.


Mother of God, Platytera, More Spacious than the Heavens, supplicated by the great Archangels Michael and Gabriel.


Bishops to the right of the Altar Table.


Bishops to the left of the Altar Table.


Bishops to right and west of the Altar Table.


Bishops to the left and west of the Altar Table.


Pentecost and Festal Icons depicting the Sundays after Pascha.


Ascension and Festal Icons depicting the Sundays after Pascha.


Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Bishop of Myra in Lycia.


Saint Iakovos, the Lord's Brother, First Bishop of Jerusalem.


Scenes from the Old Testament, commemorating the Creation of Adam, up to the Casting out from Paradise in the Diakonikon.