All Videos Tagged Wightman Road (Harringay online) - Harringay online 2024-04-25T04:16:21Z https://harringayonline.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Wightman+Road&rss=yes&xn_auth=no St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, Wightman Road tag:harringayonline.com,2010-06-26:844301:Video:160720 2010-06-26T12:54:15.569Z Hugh https://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk <a href="https://harringayonline.com/video/st-john-the-baptist-greek"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2177388949?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br><p>The inside of <a href="http://www.stjohnthebaptist.eu/en_welcome.html" target="_blank">St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church</a>, Wightman Road, Harringay.</p> <p>I just wandered in to the church, asked permission to take some pics and by good fortune was approached by Eleftherios Foulidis who spent 20 years painting the church's murals.</p> <p>Find out more about his work at…</p> <a href="https://harringayonline.com/video/st-john-the-baptist-greek"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2177388949?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br /><p>The inside of <a href="http://www.stjohnthebaptist.eu/en_welcome.html" target="_blank">St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church</a>, Wightman Road, Harringay.</p> <p>I just wandered in to the church, asked permission to take some pics and by good fortune was approached by Eleftherios Foulidis who spent 20 years painting the church's murals.</p> <p>Find out more about his work at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140516201104/http://foulidis.co.uk/" target="_blank">his website (archived version only - website withdrawn in 2015</a>) or his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eleftherios.foulidis/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. See more photos <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=St%20John%20the%20Baptist&amp;w=46500507%40N08" target="_blank">on Flickr</a>.</p> <p>This church is <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1189472" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> by English Heritage and Eletherios' work is cited as one of the reasons for for the listing.&lt;/ br&gt; <i>A very characteristic late design by Brooks and Son, endowed with an extra level of special interest on account of its modern Greek Orthodox decorative scheme, which is truly remarkable in the national context.</i></p>