Church Tours

Join us for a guide tour of our Orthodox church building. Visitors will learn about the interior and exterior architecture, icons, as well as receive information on the history and doctrine of our Orthodox faith. Church tours will be taking place throughtout the festival, please see your schedule for more details.

Choir Presentation

The choir of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church will sing on Saturday and Sunday afternoon of the festival. The choir will be part of the presentation in the church that provides a brief statement on the teachings, history and traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church.

The choir will sing selected hymns from our normal Sunday worship service, the Divine Liturgy, as well as other hymns related to major feast days of the Church. Most of the hymns will be in Greek dating from the first millennium of the undivided Christian Church. Other hymns will be sung in English using modern translation from the original Greek.

Video Presentations

Where God Walked on Earth: The Monastery of Mt. Sinai
Experience the majesty and holiness of Mount Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery. On the very site of the Burning Bush, there lives today, as it has for the last 1400 years, a monastic community of Christian Orthodox Monks. This excellent production brings the spiritual presence of the Holy Mountain of the Bible and the ongoing monastic tradition into your home. A wonderful video tour.

Mount Athos: A Thousand Years are as One Day
A sensitive one-hour videotape made for German TV - with added English commentary. A detailed picture of life and thought in the 900 year old monastery of Simono-Petra, one of the twenty great monasteries of Mount Athos, a thousand year old monastic republic known in Greece as Haghion- Oros, the Holy Mountain.

Sir Steven Runciman: Bridge to the East
A look at Byzantium through the eyes of one of Britain's greatest historians, Sir Steven Runciman, who guides us from the mosaics of Ravenna, to the beauty of Monemvassia, to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, to spectacular Mistra and the harmony of its architecture.

Patmos: Echoes of the Apocalypse
As mankind recognizes how fragile our planet is, the words of Saint John's Book of Revelation, otherwise also known as the Apocalypse, written nearly 1900 years ago in a cave on the island of Patmos, echo with even greater force. This is a film about a small island, an island where the most beloved disciple of love, John, received the revelation.

Holy Image, Holy Space: Icons from Greece
This award-winning documentary was video taped at The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. Hosted by Medieval and Byzantine Art Curator, Dr Gary Vikan, the presentation focuses on icons as subjects of religious piety and artistic achievement. A collection of over 80 icons and frescoes are analyzed in detail as to the significance of their portraiture and symbolism. An iconographer at work explains his creation as he progresses towards completion.