Above, left: the new sanctuary with the altarpiece, altar, bishop's throne, ambo, and sedilia designed by Matthew; right: Matthew's design for the altarpiece and tabernacle shrine. 
Architect of Record: Pavel Manomov.  Photo credit: Very Rev. Myron Effing, CJD.  Plans are envisioned to expand the organ to the sides of the altarpiece. 

SEVENTY years to the date after the last known martyrdom of five members of Most Holy Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Vladivostok, Russia, the church was re-consecrated by Bishop Kiril Klimovich of the Diocese of Saint Joseph February 3.  Catholics from across the Russian Far East gathered for the re-consecration of the pre-revolutionary church, which was taken over by the communists in 1935.  Extensive renovations were done to the church in a process that took 14 years.  The only surviving fixture of the original church that could be incorporated in the reconstruction was the carved marble crucifix, which was recovered in 1996 from a local art academy, where it had been used as a model for figurative drawing … The design of the interior [furniture] of the church was the work of a young American [designer], Matthew Alderman.   

~“Re-consecration in the East: Pre-Revolutionary Church Restored and Re-consecrated in Vladivostok,” The Catholic World Report, March 2008.