The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

I am running out of checks and forced to search yet again for a design that conveys something authentic of God's Church.
I looked earlier but couldn't find anything religious which fit my criteria.

Here is one - I think - new design. But it shows only St Basil's in Moscow. 3 different angles.
I am sure it takes only one minute for check designers to search out images online of thousands of other stunning Orthodox architecture to use. I hope THEY get the hint and produce imaginative check designs.
This scarcity reveals the American mentality of barely recognizing St Basil's, only.

Here is one design :

http://www.checks-superstore.com/produc ... tID=CSG-90

Next to it is a European Churches offering which has what looks like - it's a hazy photo - Novodevichi Convent walls.
They could surely have done better than THAT ! What about inside the Convent itself for strikingly beautiful images ?

Here is another of St Basil's :

http://www.bankchecksplus.com/productde ... tID=BCB-58

It makes one wonder whom the bank check companies are targeting. Maybe homesick Russian oligarchs ?!
But surely tycoons, and even peasants, could afford to choose from a number of designs ?

I am waiting eagerly for selections to appear ofthe spectacular New Jerusalem Monastery, Solovki Monastery, and the many fairy-tale Churches all over Russia.
Even of Holy-Trinity-St Sergius which is stereotypical but so much prettier than these truncated images of the rather garishly colored domes of the overdone Church on Red Square. That latter has Communist connotations, having been photographed so often representing the Soviet Union for 70 or more years.

Maybe this topic is appropriate considering about the Church New Year today !

Perhaps some of our talented people could design some personal checks of the monasteries and
great Churches of Russia and/or Greece ?

Interesting topic, thanks Barbara!

I like the first selection.

The second selection shows more of a papal cross than the tri-bar Orthodox Cross. Did you notice that?

No, I didn't ! I could barely look at that second selection after seeing the first one which was at least realistic.
The second style seemed more like a sketch of the domes, not photos. So I barely gave that batch a glance.

Sharp eye, Maria !

A few days later, it's becoming urgent to order new checks, so I reluctantly went back to the search.

I unearthed this one :

https://www.checkadvantage.com/european ... ure-checks

The description below mentions Orthodox Churches, as though they heard us complaining about the lack of such Checks.
However, there is no label that I see on any of these checks, except the Greek Gods one !

I would surmise that the first check in THIS series is a St Petersburg cathedral or similar Rastrelli-style architecture elsewhere in Russia.
One of the others seems to be a Greek Church.

Check Advantage does seem to have some of the most innovative designs, to their credit.
So many are boring, silly cartoon drawings of children or the same old lighthouse scene or little cherub angels instead of
any nice Icons of Angels or Archangels.
Though I assume it would be improper to use checks with such for decoration ?

Here is another one notable for having the Double-Headed Eagle included :

https://www.checkadvantage.com/from-rus ... ove-checks

I guess the nostaligic oligarchs might manage to settle for this selection if they are not very Orthodox.

If someone could obtain permission to use some of the dazzlingly beautiful photos of the Solovki Churches
found here, it would be wonderful to use for checks.

Meanwhile, viewing the slideshow is certainly calming and uplifting : one feels that the slings and arrows of evil are turned away by the pristine beauty of the historical monastery on the White Sea.

Sorry to refer to a World Orthodox website. I found this after looking at a different link posted earlier in another Forum here.

http://www.pravoslavie.ru/foto/image17519.htm