Iconography update
On to Completion!
SPONSORSHIP
- All Icons available for sponsorship are listed below. Remember, you can choose a variety of payment plans; up to 10 years, in fact.
- Partial sponsorship is available! Mr. Antonacos can pair you with others who wish to sponsor a portion of an icon's cost. Several such collaborations have already been created. You can participate, too!
- For more information contact Charles Antonacos at cantonac@verizon.net or 207.283.0817.
- 10 year payment plans available!
Iconography Record Book
. A finished and permanent Iconography Record Book is kept in the narthex. This
publication will be finalized after the installation of the altar screen with its 25 icons. The
publication shows each icon in full color, its location within the Church and the
respective donors of said icon
a draft of the Iconography Record Book , currently in 2 parts, is on display on the icon display table in the narthex. It has a page for every single icon and icon scene in the church.
Our Sponsorship Program is still ongoing. The program is not yet fully subscribed. We continue to solicit sponsorship for specific icons and icons scenes.
Available Icons.
Following are the 44 icons (out of a total of 220) that are still available for sponsorship:
LOCATION CATEGORY NAME COST
Sanctuary ½-Hierarch (1) Methodios $1,950
Apse Arch Medallions (3) Aaron/Gideon/Zacharias $1,250 ea
Front Wall ½-Apostles (5) Luke/Mark/Simon/
Mathias/Bartholomew $2,200 ea
Left Walls ½-Female Sts. (3) Thekla/Polyxeni/Makrina $1,950 ea
Right Walls ½-Male Sts. (4) Menas/Theodore Stratil./
Nikonos/Seraphim $1,950 ea
Back Walls Full Male Sts. (2) Anthony/Ephrem $4,250 ea
½-Male Sts. (2) Poet Kosmas/
Melodist Romanos $1,950 ea
½-Archangel (1) Gabriel $2,000
Scene (1) Wedding at Cana $12,900
Major Scene (1) Koimisis $42,500
Scene (1) Ladder of Jacob $5,450
Ceilings Medallions (2) Jeremiah/David $3,700 ea
Major Scenes (7) Nativity/Presentation/
Baptism/Crucifixion/
Resurrection/Pentecost/
Ascension $14,750 ea
Rear Beams Medallions(6) Theophano/Olga/Pelagia/
Theodora Alexandria/
Dosithea Kiev/
Arsenios Cappadocia $1,700 -1,900 ea
Spandrels Medallions (4) Zacharias/Joseph/
Asineth/Rachel $1,400 ea
Back Ceiling Medallion (1) Ruth $1,250
Please note: By ancient tradition, the icons of female Saints are installed on the north side of a Church, its being the side of the iconostasion devoted to the Most Holy Theotokos. The converse is true for male Saints on the south side, its being the side of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
*The transition surfaces between 2 adjacent arches under the dome: see photo below.
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- All Icons available for sponsorhip are listed below. Remember, you can choose a variety of payment plans; up to 10 years, in fact.
- Partial sponsorship is available! Mr. Antonacos can pair you with others who wish to sponsor a portion of an icon's cost. Several such collaborations have already been created. You can participate, too!
- For more information contact Charles Antonacos at cantonac@verizon.net or 207.283.0817.
10 year payment plans available!
Evangelea and Dimitrios Christodoulou, Ireni and +Nikos Minadakis, Matoula and Panayiotis Christodoulou, Fr. Basil Arabatzis under a north-south pendentive
© 2010 St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Saco, Maine
