Despite the fact that all icons should look the same, Christine wrote some of the most beautiful icons ever created. Christine's partner, Nick Loya, carved and built all of the wooden icon screens by hand and in addition held the secrets to old-world techniques for adhering the icons to the walls. Contrary to tradition, Christine and Nick sometimes wrote the largest of the icons on canvas in a studio environment and then transported the icons to the church, instead of writing them directly onto the walls of the church. Given modern-day constraints, this turned out to be the best option for the creation and longevity of the icons. All icons in the iconostasis, or icon screen, were painted and gilded on masonite board and could be rotated in and out of the iconostasis for holidays and other religious occasions.
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All of the icons were painted by Christine Uveges of Cleveland, Ohio. Pantocrator - Sykesville, Pennsylvania . This is a rather large image of christ, about 15 feet in diameter, on the ceiling of a church in Pennsylvania. The circular and triangular pieces were written on canvas and then adhered to the plaster ceiling, taking into account the curvature of the ceiling. The circular accent pattern in the back was painted old-world style right onto the ceiling.