History of the Store

Under inspiration of St. Herman of Alaska, in the 1960’s, Archbishop John Maximovitch challenged two laypersons to translate the ancient church writings into English and make Orthodoxy accessible to Americans.

The first publications of The Orthodox Word and the first American Orthodox bookstore on the street were begun.

Since then, the Valaam Society of America pursued this mission, which sent men and women starting bookstores throughout the U.S. as labors of love and as lighthouses to the world.

Today the Archangel Bookstore is a Pan-Orthodox presence and serves as a hospitable welcome to the ancient church for the inquirer on the street.

See http://www.stinnocent.com/seraphim/vsa to find other Orthodox bookstores around the country.

A (Very) Brief Intro to Orthodoxy

Orthodox Christianity is the life in faith of the Orthodox Church, inseparable from that concrete, historic community and encompassing its entire way of life. The Orthodox Christian faith is that faith "handed once to the saints" (Jude 3), passed on in Holy Tradition to the apostles by Jesus Christ, and then handed down from one generation to the next, without addition or subtraction.