Church Colors

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Chesterton said:

Are there any traditions about what colors should be used for the interior walls of a church?

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All the colours
The walls should be covered in frescos

But seeing as you probably won't have the budget for that in the beginning, probably white.

Also, going with white makes it easy to dress up the Church with different coloured trim to reflect the liturgical season. I'll let someone who knows more about that to weigh in on what colours and when.

Romanians have this awesome deep blue that they use.

Go with a white or off white until you can afford iconography. Not all churches *must* be covered in fresco; there's nothing wrong with having mounted icons all over the place either.

Usually the altar cover and cloth underneath the icons of the analogions tend to reflect the priest's vestments too. Purple for Lent or the Nativity Fast, red for Pentecost, blue tends to be on feasts that have something to do with the Theotokos, etc

"Now, those who are acquainted with philosophy (nay, religion) which is typified in the art of drawing on brown paper, know that white is positive and essential. I cannot avoid remarking here on a moral significance. One of the wise and awful truths which this brown-paper art reveals, is this, that white is a color. It is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. When, so to speak, your pencil grows red-hot, it draws roses; when it grows white-hot, it draws stars. And one of the two or three defiant verities of the best religious morality, of real Christianity, for example, is exactly this same thing; the chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not seen. Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. In a word, God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

A Piece of Chalk

GK Chesterton....surprise, surprise.....

maybe that color can make current or future icons pop.

Chesterton said:

Well the Building Committee had a meeting tonight, and I was out-voted. While enjoying bundt cake, they decided we're going with all beige. Yeah, we're mostly WASP converts.

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Aren't they usually the most hyperdox?

But which KIND of beige?

• Cosmic latte.
• Cream.
• Unbleached silk.
• Tuscan.
• Buff.
• Desert sand.
• Ecru.
• Khaki.

GreekOrthodox said:

But which KIND of beige?

• Cosmic latte.
• Cream.
• Unbleached silk.
• Tuscan.
• Buff.
• Desert sand.
• Ecru.
• Khaki.

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what about ivory or mother-of-pearl?

prodromos said:

Aren't they usually the most hyperdox?

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haha, usually. but I know some former WASPs who are not. there was one who didn't like extra services because this person didn't like feeling guilty about never coming to them.

and thus wanted the extra services to cease.