All forty icons on the Ikonostas were also painted by Igor Suhachev. The Ikonostas was designed by Toronto artist Igor Suhachev, and carved from walnut in Hania, Crete by Argyrios Kavroulakis & Co. The mosaic above the Barton Street entrance was created by artist Sava Rakočević from Chicago, IL. Construction was completed in September 1975. Construction was undertaken by the Fairwin Construction firm from Toronto. In August 1974, construction on the present church building began, based on the designs created by Radovan Radović. The Serbian Canadian Community Centre was built in 1957. Lots were purchased at the corner of Barton and Division Streets and plans for new buildings were created. The Serbian community in Hamilton experienced a great deal of growth after World War 2, and in 1952, despite recent renovations to the old church building, it was decided that a new Community Centre and Church would be needed. In 1927 a Serbian Hall was built beside the church. In 1917 building began on a permanent church on the northeast corner of Beach Road and Northcote Avenue. Jurewicz is held to be one of the most renowned icon painters in North America today, 2 and has painted about a dozen Eastern Orthodox churches across North America. From 1914 to 1917 the parish worshiped in a chapel in the main floor of a house on Sherman Avenue North. Theodore Jurewicz is the father of noted Chicago -based iconographer John Jurewicz. It was built in a Serbo-Byzantine Style, specifically that of the Morava School of architecture. It sits at the northwest corner of Barton Street East and Division Street. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church was built in the East End of Hamilton in 1974. Theodore Jurewicz > St Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church

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