The Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral "KIOSK" Bookstore is one of the largest Orthodox bookstores on the West Coast. The Kiosk has a large selection of books (both in English and Russian), crosses, icons, tapes, and CDs and other religious items for sale. The book store is open on Sundays after the Divine Liturgy and by appointment. Appointments may be made through the parish office (323) 666-4977. Sorry, no mail orders or credit cards accepted.
In English we have books in the following areas:
  • Church History
  • The Church in Russia
  • Writing of the Church Fathers (Patristics)
  • The Church Year (including materials for Great Lent, Nativity Lent, Paschal Season, Pentecost)
  • Iconography/Iconology (including some large format books of icon prints in full color)
  • Scripture Commentaries
  • Bibles
  • Orthodox Theology
  • Catechisms
  • The Holy Mysteries (Sacraments) of Baptism, Confession, Marriage
  • The Liturgical Services - Prayerbooks, Psalters, The Octoechos, Horologions, explanations of all aspects of the daily, weekly and yearly cycle of the liturgical life of the Church.
  • The Orthodox Life
  • Philosophical and Ethical issues including
    Bioethics, Ecology, Religion and Health; Suffering, Grief and Dying, Pastoral Care Mission
  • Ecumenical issues
  • Women in the Church
  • Orthodox Monasticism
  • Lives and Sayings of the Desert Fathers
  • Prayer
  • The Philokalia
  • Lives of the Saints (both anthologies and individual saints)
  • Reading to Nourish the Spiritual Life
  • Lenten and Ethnic Cookbooks
  • Children Books including
  • Prayerbooks, Bible Stories, coloring books, Lives of the Saints, Russian Folk Stories in English, good "Bedtime Stories", stickerbooks



  In Russian Section we have books:
  • Prayerbooks (in Church Slavonic)
  • Bibles
  • Psalters
  • Horologions
  • Sluzhebnik
  • Philokalia
  • St. Theophan the Recluse (works of)
  • St. Ephrem the Syrian (complete works)
  • Children's books
  • Explanation of the Divine Liturgy, The Liturgical Life, Confession
  • Lives of the Saints
  • Catechisms - The Law of God
  • Spiritual Writings
And many more... over 1500 titles - all on Orthodoxy

Crosses:
Wall crosses (both carved and iconographic), 14K gold baptismal crosses, inexpensive neck crosses, blessing crosses (wooden iconographic), icon pins
Come and visit the KIOSK Bookstore! 
Incense
(both traditional and stick incense), charcoal, censers for home use

Videos
and CD-ROM's, tapes and CD's of liturgical music in both English and Slavonic

Lampadas:
Hanging and standing lampadas, oil (rose scented), wicks, wicks floats, votive glass, votive candles, viking glass

Icons: range in price from $12 to $40
Icons of Christ, the Theotokos (Mother of God), Major Feasts, Days of the Church, Angels, and favorite Saints - a sample would be St. Seraphim, Nicholas Archbishop of Myra, John of Shanghai the Wonderworker, Greatmartyr George, Xenia, Mary Magdalene, Irene, Barbara, Sergius of Radonezh, Silouan, several of the New American Saints, Icon cards, Greenbriar bronze icons, Dyptichs and Tryptichs, Medallion icons

Come and visit
the KIOSK Bookstore! 
Other items...
including prayer ropes, wooden eggs, Faberge' eggs for necklaces and many more...