July 2025

They Built a Log Church in Antarctica—Like a Giant Lego Set Yes, a real wooden church. In Antarctica. Not a hut, not a module—but a hand-crafted log chapel, hauled across the planet and assembled like sacred Lego on the icy edge

A church too powerful for memory alone. That’s how locals remembered the Russian Memorial Church in San Stefano—now a ghost of stone and silence in the dusty annals of Istanbul. On a bright morning in 1914, a deafening boom tore through the

From exile to eternity, his churches still breathe. Roman Verkhovskoy wasn’t just an architect—he was a soul in stone. Born in 1881 in the Russian Empire, trained at the Imperial Academy of Arts, he fought as a White Army officer under

Every sacred building begins with a single quiet idea. That spark—the one that asks what could be—is what we as architects are called to listen to, interpret, and shape. Recently, I had the honor of working on a conceptual design for the

In the field of Orthodox church design, architecture goes beyond structure—it becomes a form of cultural continuity. Every component of a traditional church, from layout to materials, carries symbolic meaning shaped by centuries of liturgical practice. Within traditional church architecture, proportions,