Orthodox Christians face accusations of idolatry claiming that the veneration of icons amounts to worship of the images ...
When the church was built, Gallaway had commissioned a local craftsman to build the “iconostase,” another required feature of ...
Continuing an artistic tradition begun in the 3rd Century, Kim Fritzges paints early Byzantine icons in Studio 311 at the ...
This past month at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, we had the great blessing to see two of the holy icons on our iconostasis restored, that of our Lord Jesus Christ and his all-pure mother.
One of the great tragedies of Christianity is the continued divide between the Eastern and Western churches. Popes and patriarchs often meet to discuss the dissolution of this partition, but there is ...
Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...
At the Catholic University of America, an icon entitled "Mama" that portrayed a Black Christ — the image also evoked George Floyd, depending on how the viewer engages the painting — cradled by a Black ...
This icon of the Annunciation on the doors to the sanctuary is one of four new icons at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in New Westminster, British Columbia. The parish is working to ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...
During a Dec. 14 blessing of an icon of the crucifixion that hangs above the main entrance of Saint Hugh of Grenoble Church in Greenbelt, Maryland, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the image reminds ...