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| Photo by Pittsburgh Murals and Public Art Blog |
We've been feeling nostalgic lately and noticed with gratitude that one of our early custom mosaics was featured on a local art and mural blog.
Company founder and renowned liturgical artist Rudolph Rohn designed this exterior triptych for the newly constructed Holy Spirit Byzantine Catholic Church in Oakland, PA, in the early 1960s. Fabricated in Pietro Santo, Italy, the mosaic was shipped to Pittsburgh in sections and then installed on the building's facade. It is one of the four largest mosaics in the country and is made from seven million pieces of Venetian glass. The mosaic features the Holy Trinity in the center with twelve figures on each side from the Old (left) and New Testament (right).
Rudolph also did all of the interior decorations, including an expansive Byzantine-style altar mural of the Most Holy Mother of God and Christ Child, under whom the Holy Spirit descends upon the apostles on Holy Pentecost Sunday.
The mosaic and eight custom Byzantine stained glass windows (also designed by Rudolph and crafted by Rohlf Studio in Yonkers, NY) were blessed on September 11, 1966.
If you live in Pittsburgh and want to see this breathtaking piece of Eastern European tradition in person, the church spans the entire block between Clyde and Devonshire Streets at 4815 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Today, we proudly carry on Rudolph's work with our consulting and interior design services. Visit our website to see how we might be able to help your parish create an inspiring, harmonious, and liturgically correct environment.
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| Photo by Fr. David Abernathy via Twitter |
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| Photo by Bohemian Baltimore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
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