The Architecture of the Church of Saint Sergius of Radonezh in MidrandThe picturesque silhouette of the Orthodox Church of Saint Sergius of Radonezh stands in a prime location in Midrand, where it is visible from the N1 highway, crossing South Africa. His Eminence Cyrill, the Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad and His Eminence Seraphim, the Metropolitan of Johannesburg and Pretoria consecrated it on 2 March 2003.
The architect - Kirs George VictorovichGeorge Kirs was born on the 18 of May 1959 in the city of Leningrad. In 1982 he started working professionally as a sculptor, restorer and woodcarver at the Ekaterina’s Palace in the city of Pushkin. In 1991 he completed an architectural degree at the Leningrad Construction and Engineering institute. From 1989 to 1995, he worked with design organisations including "Lengrazhdanproect" and "TST". During this time a series of projects including living quarters and office parks were accomplished in the cities of Kirovsk and Otradnoe, as well as the department store "SITOP" in Finland.
Ancient tradition brought to commercial SAThis article first appeared in the journal "ARCHI-technology" in November 2004 and is reproduced here by kind permission of the publishers - Brooke Pattrick Publications (Pty) Ltd and personally by Mr. Gerald Garner. The gold-leaf-covered onion domes of a Russian Orthodox church are not a sight one expects to see when driving through the ever-developing area of Midrand on the N1 freeway. But that is precisely what has been built not far from the New Road offramp. Claire Cole paid a fascinating visit to the building with Alminic Construction, the company which built the church, and spoke to Reverend Hiegumen Philaret, who initiated and organised its construction.
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