Scaffolding ready...

A part of the Nave as well as the biggest area of the Gallery have been covered by scaffolding.

This scaffolding will facilitate the plastering of both the walls as well as the ceiling, which is going to start soon.

The traditional wall paintings - icons will actually be placed on the top of the plastering.

Red tiles arrived

A lorry has delivered today thousands of the red tiles that will go on the roof of our new Church.

They came in a nice red colour.

Red being a traditional colour for the roof of the Orthodox Church buildings.

Their type is: “Rosemary Classic Red Tile”.

Walking around the... heavens

The whole of the top of our new place of worship, with the surrounding area can be seen on this video, taken this afternoon when we walked around the dome of the Church.

A quick view of the interior was also included on the video.

Be SMART - Win a Car

Our Community is organising at the moment many different fundraising events and takes various fundraising initiatives, in support of our great and sacred project.

One of them is a Raffle, with a SMART Car as the only Prize. Tickets cost only £5 each. The Draw will take place on Sunday 6th February 2011.

A famous musician

Today we had the honour to welcome to our Community the famous musician and traditional bouzouki player Yiannis Polykandriotis.

He came to see our new project and to talk with us about music lessons in our St. Panteleimon Hellenic College.

Yiannis had been a music teacher in our Community School in the past and had offered his good services to our students with great success.

The work had been continuing today in our new Church, with scaffolding being put in place in the Nave and the Gallery.

Photo of the week - 46

Great progress since last week. The pitch roof, the bricklaying on the Bell Tower and on the Kingsbury site of the building are only the visible ones...

Front Pitch roof

The front side of the barrel roof is being transformed with the timber frame.

The barrel roof is important for the interior of the Church, as it is much better and more appropriate to paint icons on it.

But the pitch roof is much better on the outside.

It is certainly a much better sight and with its various corners it emphasize the cross shape of a traditional Byzantine Church.