Picture Gallery

Welcome to our Photo Gallery

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The previous road to new building site

Clearing Trees

Transporting timber

Laying the footings for the new bridge.

Finished bridge footings

Pushing the bridge onto the footings.

The finished bridge

2. The bridge from the cleaned creek bed below.

Clearing the road that will lead to the future parking area

The new road that leads to the future parking area.

The sisters are gathering firewood for the monastery

The sisters are cutting firewood and preparing the burn piles for the leftover brush

Sisters work to bring fallen timber to the burn piles.

Clearing the ground on the new site

Burning timber to prepare the ground

Leveling the ground on the building site from the north.

The future building site from the west.

Overhead plan of the future building layout

Preliminary drawing of the new church

Side view of the new church

Preliminary plans of the sisters cells

St. John's New Building Project

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Installed drywall

Sisters painting

Sisters helping to install the windows.

Installation of hardwood floors.

Stucco on outside walls by Delgado

Stucco on the outside walls.

The tile is installed.

The hardwood floor has been installed.

Sisters preparing doors.

Sisters staining doors.

Sisters staining trim.

View of an outside balcony.

View from the west.

The new dormitory in the snow.

Building Progress 2010

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Excavating for the foundation of the new dormitory

Excavating the foundation

Excavation of the foundation for the dormitory looking to the east

Finished excavation of the foundation for the dormitory

Walking to the new site to bless the ground for the foundation with holy water.

Holy Water Service to bless the ground for the foundation of the dormitory

Breaking ground

His Grace Bishop Anthimos blessing the ground for the new foundation with holy water

Blessed ground for the new foundation

Footing molds for the foundation

Footings for the dormitory foundation

Pouring concrete in foundation footings

Smoothing out concrete footings for dormitory foundation

Pouring concrete in the foundation footings

Smoothing the concrete footings for the foundation

Completed foundation footings

Cement blocks for the exterior walls

Unloading cement blocks weighing over 2,500 lbs per flat

The PUD is bringing electricity to the new site which took both underground excavation and insertion of new poles.

The Well Drillers

Pouring cement foundation for the dormitory.

Completed concrete foundation.

St. John's New Dormitory Foundation

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Starting of framing in the basement.

Beam for the first floor.

Floor joists

First floor

Back fill of the basement.

Framing of the first floor.

First Floor

Front entrance

View from the back

This was taken Aug. 24th, just about ready for the roof.

North East View of the Dormitory.

East View of the Dormitory.

The roof tiles were laid, except for the center elevation, the week of October 8th. The center elevation will be completed God-willing by the beginning of November.

St. John's Monastery Building Project Progress

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The Monastery of St. John the Forerunner was blessed to have His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos perform the ceremony of the Church Founding on June 24, 2009.

His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos performing the ceremony of the founding of the New Church on June 24,2009.

Church Founding ceremony.

His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos places the plaque for the foundation of the new Church.

Closeup of the plaque for the founding of the new church.

Church Founding

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Monastery at the North End

Views of St. John's Monastery Landscape

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Icon of the Resurrection decorated for Pascha

Icon of the Nativity of St. John the Forerunner decorated for the Monastery Feast Day

Epitaphio decorated for Pascha

Pascha

St. John's Monastery Chapel