Theodore like other contemporary iconographers are done in acrylics on dry plaster. Painted in a Byzantine style it features richly colored designs and religious scenes covering the walls, vaults, pillars and dome of the church. Theodore is held to be one of the most celebrated iconographers in North America today.
Theodore Jurewicz was commissioned to paint the entire church. New Gračanica has detail such as hand-carved wooden entrance doors depicting twenty-three monasteries and churches from various regions of Serbia. It is an architectural replica of the original Gračanica in Kosovo that is found on UNESCO's World Heritage List, but built in a scale eighteen percent larger than the original. New Gračanica church and monastery complex in Third Lake, Illinois.īuilt on land that the Most Holy Mother of God Serbian Association purchased in 1977, New Gračanica Church and the main building on its grounds dedicated to the feast of the "Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God" were completed and consecrated in 1984. It is a part of the Diocese of New Gracanica - Midwestern America. The complex houses a scaled up replica of the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo. New Gračanica ( Serbian: Манастир Нoва Грачаница, Manastir Nova Gračanica) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery complex is located in Third Lake, Illinois, USA, a suburb of Chicago.
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