The main altar of the church was put here in 1973. It is decorated with symbols popular at that time which tried to reproduce the kind of symbol used in the early days of the Church and known to us from such places as the catacombs. The bread and fish at the centre, five small loaves and two fish, remind us of the feeding of the five thousand. The anchors at either side were symbols of hope, safe haven, being sheltered in port. Note the bottoms of the anchors are letters, an "A" the first letter of the Greek alphabet, alpha, and what looks like a "w", in fact a small omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the book of the Apocalypse Jesus says, "I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end." The birds are most probably a representation of the quail which fell into the Israelite camp as it dwelt in the wilderness after leaving Egypt. The small crosses are traditionally the representation of the manna, also known as the bread of heaven, the small sweet flakes which settled on the Israelite camp. The quail and bread helped to feed the children of Israel for the forty years of their wanderings in the desert. The IC at one end of the altar represents the first and last letters, in Greek, of the name Jesus. The XC below are the first and last letters of the name Christ. At the other end the word NIKA is Greek for victor or conqueror. On the lectern some of these symbols are reused. This time we have capital A and Ω, alpha and omega, as well as the anchor with a small omega below.
