Welcome! Here's how to Pre-Order the North American Thebaid Book!

Early prototype cover design, actual cover may vary. Welcome to the Online Store for The North American Thebaid Photographic Pilgrimage. Primary travel and photography for the Thebaid Project extended from September 2016 through September 2018, with a few additional trips and images made up through Summer 2022. Following publishing delays and a major setback due to the Covid-19 lockdown, we are pleased to announce that the resulting book , The North American Thebaid, A Photographic Pilgrimage to Orthodox Christian Monasteries, Photographs by Ralph H. Sidway , is officially in pre-production, and will soon be published by St. Tikhon's Monastery Press , South Canaan, Pennsylvania.* This large-format, fine-art "coffee table" book represents the culmination of a unique multi-year project, which has combined crowdfunding, social media, and an unprecedented photographic pilgrimage to over thirty Orthodox monasteries across the American continent, to help raise awareness