30/08/2010
Readers may remember that the glorious new iconostas at Dormition Cathedral in London was consecrated by His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion during his archpastoral visitation to our diocese last November. The icons from the previous, temporary iconostas, however, have not been retired but have found a new home at the church in Wallasey, which was acquired for use last summer by the parish of St Elisabeth the New-Martyr.
These icons are part of the rich history of Orthodoxy in Great Britain and particularly of our Russian Orthodox Diocese of Great Britain and Ireland, and now, through the generosity of the cathedral parish in London, where they have been venerated for decades, they have found a new home in the Wallasey. The final set of the Apostles was donated on the feast of the Dormition and will be mounted along the top of the iconostas on either side of the central Deisis. It is hoped that they will be an inspiration and a call to prayer for all who enter the church, and may aid the mission of the Church in the northwest. The parish of St Elisabeth is immensely grateful for this gift.
