1966 – St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Designed in the early 1960s by the firm of Green Blankstein Russell Associates, and constructed almost entirely of reinforced concrete. Manitoba Tyndall stone is used on the exterior surfaces. The unique domes and arches have a roof of a glass fibre outer skin in the colour of aged copper over a concrete structure. The same green hue is also found in the eleven-foot diameter fibreglass orbs on the corner buttresses and are surmounted by crosses. A twelve-foot cross rises above the skylight in the centre of the exterior main dome. The crosses and orbs symbolize the church triumphant in the four corners of the world; the distinctive Byzantine domes and arches retain the building traditions of the Ukrainian Catholic faith.

Above the main entrance to the church is a large mosaic, designed by Emil Telizyn of Toronto, depicting Christ with arms extended in a gesture of welcome. The Inscription in Ukrainian and English reads, “Come to me all of you”. The mosaic covers an area of 320 square feet, and is made of thousands of small square and rectangular pieces of blown-glass tiles, 70 per cent of which are of Venetian gold. The mosaic was produced by G. Travisanutto in Spilimbergo (near Venice), Italy, and was commissioned by the parishioners to commemorate the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine