Heritage Fellowship Church Stained Glass, Reston VA

Heritage Fellowship Church began in Reston, Virginia, in 1978, when about 20 people met in a member's home under the name Christian Community Fellowship Church. The congregation grew into its home on Fox Mill Road, where a new building by FGM Architects, centered on an 800 seat sanctuary, was dedicated in October 2012.

For that new building our studio made the stained glass: a round window above the altar, a row of windows behind the platform, and the windows that line the curved wall of the baptistry.

Fabrication: Stanisic (Apperlo) Art Glass Studio

Studio assistant: Milan Stanisic Junior

The round window

A cross divides the circle into 4 quarters. From its center, rays of clear, gold and red glass open outward, while ribbons of blue and turquoise flow beneath them like moving water. Small squares of red and amber glass mark the crossing. In the sanctuary the window hangs high in the gable, framed by the wooden cross above the altar.

Round stained glass window by Brenda Belfield for Heritage Fellowship Church, Reston, Virginia, held upright by studio assistant Milan Stanisic Junior in the Stanisic Studio before delivery: a cross with rays of gold and red over flowing blue glass

Sanctuary of Heritage Fellowship Church, Reston, Virginia, with the round stained glass window behind the altar cross and a row of blue stained glass windows behind the platform

Windows of water and light

The tall windows carry the same idea. A slender cross of clear textured glass, marked with red and gold squares where its arms meet, rises through bands of blue, turquoise and white that roll across the window like waves. Clear and lightly textured glass keeps the windows bright and lets the trees and sky outside become part of the design.

2 stained glass windows by Brenda Belfield at Heritage Fellowship Church, Reston, Virginia: a clear glass cross with red and gold squares rising through waves of blue

Close view of blue, turquoise and clear textured glass in a stained glass window at Heritage Fellowship Church, Reston, Virginia

The baptistry

The water theme matters most around the baptistry, where the windows follow the curve of the wall and wash the room in blue light. Seen through the glass railing, they read as one continuous stream.

Stained glass windows by Brenda Belfield lining the curved baptistry wall at Heritage Fellowship Church, Reston, Virginia

Baptistry of Heritage Fellowship Church, Reston, Virginia, with blue stained glass windows behind a glass railing, photographed while the building was being finished

Baptistry stained glass windows at Heritage Fellowship Church, Reston, Virginia, seen through the glass railing in evening light

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