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University of Wisconsin- Sheboygan
St. Nicholas Church
GEO 101- Intro to Cultural Geography
Kevin Schnur
11/17/2002
It was a chilly morning on the November 17, 2002, at The Ascension Of Our Lord Greek Orthodox Church in Lincolnshire, Illinois. This church is known for its dome roof that looks like a huge onion. When I was younger we always use to gawk at the site, and every time we passed dome we had to look at it. Little did I know that it was a Greek Orthodox Church, which was a powerful and critically divided church. This church has its history from back in the early 1980's, that one of the gentleman that worked it would give the church fifty dollars every Sunday. Later did they find out that he was embezzling the money from his employer to pay off his debts to the Lord.
It was a really beautiful church the entire inside was done in a granite or marble a marble rock. There were solid pillars holding the dome up, which was painted in a oil based paint. There were many pictures and artifacts that most likely traced back to Greece. I talked to an elderly man and he told me that he had been going to this church for 60 years and has not missed one Sunday or celebration of the church. There were many paintings in there but one that struck me was, a elder man presenting a cross to a sister marry. The picture was signed with a year of 1790 which was one hundred years before the church was even built. But the one that was really confusing was the one with the twelve men surrounding the cofin and the sister marry in the background floating on a carpet. I walked pass a brass plate that read in greek but translated in English "The true orthodox way of thought has always been historical, has always included the past, but has never been inslaved by itÂ…[for] the strength of the Church is not in the past, present, or future, but in Christ.
But in all I had a pleasurable experience...
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