Sacred Stones, Sacred Stories

One, two, three…steps and more!  Journeying up these steps would lead you to our second floor.

This is a set of steps for one of our new emergency stairwells that has been delivered and is being secured to the walls.  Then we are in business.

Hopefully. we will not have to use it for any emergency, just for leisurely egress or perhaps to rush to prayer before the bells stop ringing.

This stairwell (above) in our west wing has looked like a big dark hole for months.

Finally, progress is evident!  This worker is prepping the space for the staircase that will arrive in a few days.

Stay tuned for a glimpse of the finished product.  The same work is being done in the east wing where another emergency stairwell is planned.

There are no good pictures of our elevator shafts.  They are either inaccessible or deep, dark empty spaces.

Today I noticed a cable dangling in the new elevator shaft.  Word is that the two new elevator cars will be arriving in the next month or so!

Some of our existing floors needed to be raised in order to make access from one wing to another smooth and easily accessible.  This is the case on the second floor.

Raising the floor to even out passageways

You can see the rise in height from the parquet tile floor to the new height in this photo of some stairs (below).  The new floor covering will be as beautiful as the parquet one when all the work is finished.

Raising the floors in some areas means some additional work near stairways