LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — The religious scenes playing out on the interior walls of St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church could have been painted centuries ago: Saints with gilded halos, winged angels hugging ...

The gold leaf, placed piece-by-piece by hand, glistens at the top of the dome at St. James the Apostle Orthodox Church, a brilliant background as expert painters carry out an ancient tradition inside ...

Construction will start on the new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church near Ground Zero and the World Trade Center this weekend. And a new animated video shows the first look at the church’s interior.

You can tell a lot about a church by its interior. You might even be able to discern the denomination. Church interiors can convey a sense of the theological tradition and the philosophy of ministry.

BUCHAREST, Romania — Thousands of pilgrims turned out Sunday in Romania’s capital for the consecration of religious paintings inside the world’s largest Christian Orthodox church that was being opened ...