Not
long after the Church was acquired, the interior was remodeled
to make it a more attractive facility in which to celebrate the
Holy Liturgy, and part of that project was the design and building
of the Iconostas. It has special meaning here because the wooden
structure was designed and laid out by Mr. Nikola Vujnovic, one
of the Church’s founding
members and most devoted parishioners. And the icons that completed
the project were painted by a very talented young artist, Stevan
Shapona.
Stevan is the son of Vic Shapona, who painted the
original icons and other religious paintings on the walls and domes
of the St. John’s
Serbian Orthodox Church in San Francisco. Approximately forty years
later, after studying numerous publications on iconography and literally
hundreds of photographs of famous icons, Stevan, like his father
before him, undertook the task of painting the Church icons for Holy
Trinity. His work, in the Church that his grandfather helped to establish,
adds special significance to our spiritual home.
Click on different parts of
the iconostas to see a larger image of that icon.
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