Chicago · North Shore · Oak Brook
Hand-painted sacred icons for Chicago
Chicago is one of the great capitals of the Christian East in America: Greektown, Ukrainian Village, the Serbian and Russian parishes, Polish and Byzantine-rite Catholic churches. A city where the icon is lived in the family, the liturgy and the feasts.
The icon in Chicago
- Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, designed by Louis Sullivan and completed in 1903.
- The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation and the many Greek parishes of the city and suburbs.
- Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, with its Byzantine-inspired mosaics.
- The Shrine of Christ the King in Woodlawn, a centre of the traditional Catholic liturgy.
Gift ideas in Chicago and nearby
From the North Shore to Oak Brook, many families of Greek, Serbian, Ukrainian and Polish descent want icons faithful to their own tradition: Concetta paints them according to the Byzantine canon, with inscriptions in Greek or Latin. A hand-painted icon is the gift for a baptism, a wedding, an ordination or the Slava, the Serbian feast of the family patron saint.
Saviour of the Fiery Eye
Church Slavonic inscription.
Saint George
A family patron saint.
Commissioning and shipping to the United States
Consultations take place online, in English or Italian, at a time that suits your time zone. During the work you receive photographs of every stage; the icon arrives with its certificate of authenticity on real parchment and an explanatory booklet in English. Shipments to the United States require customs documentation and, because international rules and conditions change often, arrangements, timing, costs and any import charges are checked at the time of commission.