Holy Transfiguration Skete

Holy Transfiguration Skete is a Catholic monastery of the Byzantine Rite under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Nicholas in Chicago.  In their community at Jacob’s Falls on the shore of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, the monks devote themselves to a common life of prayer and work for the praise, love, and service of God and for the upbuilding of His Kingdom through the arts.

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Holy Transfiguration Skete: A Pilgrim’s View

The Roman basilica, exemplified by Constantine’s fourth-century Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem and by the many other monumental churches he had erected throughout the Roman world, remained the standard of church architecture in the West for more than a thousand years.