Νέα έπιπλα στο Ναό μας

Ήλθαν σήμερα νέα έπιπλα, κυρίως καθίσματα, αλλά και η βάση του Εσταυρωμένου, για το νεόδμητο Ναό μας.

Τα έπιπλα αυτά κατασκευάσθηκαν στο εργαστήριο ξυλογλυπτικής του κ. Ευγένιου Αμανατίδη στη Θεσσαλονίκη και μεταφέρθηκαν στο Λονδίνο από τη μεταφορική εταιρεία MONDIAL του κ. Γιώργου Αντύπα.

Αξίζει να σημειώσουμε ότι ο κ. Αντύπας συνήθως μεταφέρει από την Ελλάδα ΤΕΛΕΙΩΣ ΔΩΡΕΑΝ ό,τι χρειάζονται οι εκκλησίες μας στην Αγγλία.

Ευγενικά και αφοσιωμένα μέλη της Κοινότητας βοήθησαν στη μεταφορά των ξυλόγλυπτων αντικειμένων στον Ιερό Ναό και στη συνέχεια στην τακτοποίησή τους.

Altar & Icon-screen

Today the wood-carver Mr. Eugenios Amanatides with his associate Costas came from Thessaloniki, Macedonia, North Greece in order to help us put all the wood-carvings in place.

We started with the Holy Altar, a very beautiful piece of ecclesiastical art.

All the little pieces were assembled and made up what is the Holy Table for our new Church.

Then we started gathering together the many pieces of the huge icon-screen.

It is really like a very complicated puzzle of an enormous size.

Many members of our Community were gathered there in order to assist.

Both young and old, strong and weak, male and female, they all came to help and thus get the great experience of making up a real place of worship.

This is obviously quite a big job which is going to take a few days to be completed.

More furniture arrived today

Today we celebrate the National Day of Greece.

We also commemorate in our Church calendar the Annunciation of the Mother of God.

After the morning Services at our temporary place of worship we had delivery of some more furniture.

They came from Thessaloniki (Macedonia, North Greece).

It was mainly chairs for our new Church, as well as a new Altar and some other woodcarvings.

Many volunteers came to assist to transfer all those pieces of furniture from the lorry into the temporary and the new Church.

Some of those were members of our Church’s Youth. We are really proud of our Youth.

They have been very supportive in all our Community endeavours.

Woodcarvings arrived

Today was another historic day for our Community. The new wood-carved furniture for our new Church, which were prepared for us in Thessaloniki (Macedonia - North Greece) had arrived this afternoon.

They have been donated especially for our new Church by Mr. Panicos Herodotou and his good family.

A whole lorry, full with our own wood-carvings, had travelled all the way from Thessaloniki to London, bringing from our Motherland these beautiful pieces of ecclesiastical art.

The lorry belonged to the company “Mondial” of Mr. George Antipas, who had offered the transfer free of charge for our Church and we’d like to take the opportunity to thank him very much for his generous offer.

They were many different pieces of Church furniture, to be used in our new Church.

The driver was Bulgarian and came right on the scheduled time, at 3.00 pm.

We had invited various members of our Community to come and voluntarily assist in moving all these furniture into the new Church.

Members of our Youth were also there and they were really very helpful.

Some members of the building staff had also helped.

They were quite heavy and as it is shown clearly in the pictures needed many people to lift them up the carry them.

At the moment we have placed them on one side in the Church.

Soon they will be put in their permanent place, in order to be used during our Holy Services.

After the work was done we had offered Greek coffee, tea and cookies in the garden area of the Vicarage.

Everyone was very pleased to have the opportunity of helping on this special moment in the history of our new Church.