Prayer Corner in Shed?

joshua_74 · Sep 14, 2019

Hi all,

I am new to Orthodoxy and am wondering about the location of a prayer corner. I currently have a space set up in my bedroom, but I find that I cannot use it to pray in the morning because it would disturb my wife. I have a shed in my backyard with space to set up a place to pray. Does the prayer corner need to be in my house, or is it okay to go out to the shed to pray?

I have a small office in the house that I could go to pray, but if I were to set up a prayer corner in this room it would be facing West rather than East.

Knee V · Sep 14, 2019

I think you are doing just fine with it in the shed. As for facing East vs West, we place our icon corner wherever it will fit, and that may or may not be an East-facing wall. What I am used to is praying facing an icon of Christ, or a Cross, or an icon of a saint regardless of which direction it's facing, and to pray facing East in the absence of any icons.

☦Marius☦ · Sep 14, 2019

joshua_74 said:
Hi all,

I am new to Orthodoxy and am wondering about the location of a prayer corner. I currently have a space set up in my bedroom, but I find that I cannot use it to pray in the morning because it would disturb my wife. I have a shed in my backyard with space to set up a place to pray. Does the prayer corner need to be in my house, or is it okay to go out to the shed to pray?

I have a small office in the house that I could go to pray, but if I were to set up a prayer corner in this room it would be facing West rather than East.

Don't get to caught up in the east west thing. Facing east is a tradition only because the Sun is considered an Icon of the resurrection. Other than that, any place you can pray is a good place.

Monastic cells are little more than sheds

Russ Campbell · Sep 14, 2019

Sorry I will search more specifically on what you are looking for:
This is what I could find in the Bible: Does this help?

Isa_41:25 "I have stirred up and put into action one from the north [the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great], and he has come; From the rising of the sun he will call on My Name [in prayer]. And he will trample on [the Babylonian] officials as on mortar, Even as a potter treads clay." [2Ch_36:23; Ezr_1:1-3]

Russ Campbell · Sep 14, 2019

Part 2

Sorry what I had cut and pasted is in the next message.

Russ Campbell · Sep 14, 2019

Post edited , relevant scripture coming

ArmyMatt · Sep 14, 2019

to the OP, a shed is fine.

ArmyMatt · Sep 14, 2019

Russ, he is asking a specific question about Orthodox practice. your post doesn't actually answer what he is asking.

Russ Campbell · Sep 14, 2019

Oh I am sorry, I am off topic, can you please remove it ????

prodromos · Sep 14, 2019

☦Marius☦ said:
Don't get to caught up in the east west thing. Facing east is a tradition only because the Sun is considered an Icon of the resurrection.

Well, it's a little more than that.

Genesis 2:8
Ezekiel 43:2
Matthew 24:27

Our parish church was built facing North-South as Council restrictions did not allow it to be built East-West, so if you can make it work facing East, great, if not, it isn't a problem

.

Other than that, any place you can pray is a good place.

Monastic cells are little more than sheds

Our former spiritual Father had a small cell set up in the back of his garage.

Nick1000 · Sep 14, 2019

Watch out for all those icons that will mysteriously begin to multiply once you get that shed set-up.

I was warned at one point. It did absolutely no good. They have a life of their own.

prodromos · Sep 14, 2019

Nick1000 said:
Watch out for all those icons that will mysteriously begin to multiply once you get that shed set-up.

I was warned at one point. It did absolutely no good. They have a life of their own.

And this is only the eastern wall

☦Marius☦ · Sep 14, 2019

prodromos said:
And this is only the eastern wall

Dude that's got to at least be 3k worth of Ikons

prodromos · Sep 14, 2019

☦Marius☦ said:
Dude that's got to at least be 3k worth of Ikons

Don't tell Gurney, most of them are prints

.
(and the hand painted icons were gifts)

gurneyhalleck1 · Sep 15, 2019

You know how I roll, baby. You know how I roll.......straight up hand-painted. drops microphone and walks away George Jefferson style

To the OP: just make sure you don't get the icons near the post hole digger, shovels, spades, brooms, and wheel barrow.

prodromos said:
Don't tell Gurney, most of them are prints .
(and the hand painted icons were gifts)

ArmyMatt · Sep 15, 2019

Russ Campbell said:
Oh I am sorry, I am off topic, can you please remove it ????

you're good, it happens from time to time. no harm, no foul.

Nick1000 · Sep 15, 2019

prodromos said:
And this is only the eastern wall

Not to give you any ideas, but that is just one step short of putting an onion dome on the roof of your house.

Not saying that's a bad thing.

prodromos · Sep 15, 2019

Nick1000 said:
Not to give you any ideas, but that is just one step short of putting an onion dome on the roof of your house.

Not saying that's a bad thing.

The room does have a skylight, so there is a transparent, dome sort of shape on the side of the roof. Does that count?

ArseniusTheSilent · Sep 15, 2019

awesome!

prodromos · Sep 15, 2019

ArseniusTheSilent said:
awesome!

20 years in the making

Prayer Corner in Shed?

New Member

It's phonetic.

Murican

An ounce of faith overcomes a ton of fear!

An ounce of faith overcomes a ton of fear!

An ounce of faith overcomes a ton of fear!

Regular Member

Regular Member

An ounce of faith overcomes a ton of fear!

Senior Veteran

Well-Known Member

Senior Veteran

Murican

Senior Veteran

Reader

Regular Member

Well-Known Member

Senior Veteran

Active Member

Senior Veteran

Similar threads