This unassuming church has incredibly attracted nearly 30,000 visitors in the last two years - because inside is the world's only hand-painted replica of the prestigious Sistine Chapel.

The late artist Maxo Vanka created the mural in 1941, based on a scene from the Book of Exodus. It’s one of 25 murals that cover the walls and ceilings of St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church.

The church of St. Mark in Hamilton Terrace was consecrated by the Bishop of London, Charles James Blomfield, on June 24, 1847, and for the next 175 years, it would adorn the district of St. John ...

Art conservator Jessica Keister works on a mural by Maxo Vanka inside St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale, Pa., Feb. 19, 2025.

Archaeologists have made a "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery while working on a high-speed railway project in a small English village: rare Roman statues in a mausoleum under an old church.

History | August 7, 2023. These 17th-Century Poems Painted Pictures on the Page—and Defied the Church of England’s Rejection of Religious Images. George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed ...

Demetrius James Dukas, a world-renowned Byzantine iconographer who decorated churches with mosaics and paintings in the United States and abroad, died June 17 from complications of an infection at ...