The last two images show what the space looked like upon my arrival. In Mark Twain’s words, it felt like ” untenanted by any living creature… A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent, mournful expanse… a desolation … We never saw a human being on the whole route…” Excerpt from The Innocents Abroad, 1867.
Narthex: The main entrance and the upper-level to the sanctuary.
Each time I enter God’s House, I want to be reminded that I am stepping into the Unquestionable.
At the redesigned gate stands the Lion of Judah—an architectural reminder of the One who roars: I AM.
I placed two lions to mark each end, declaring that He is the Beginning and the End—Α and Ω, all things were made through Him, and nothing exists apart from Him.