iconostas

The iconostas is in all cases decorated with a large number of holy pictures or icons, arranged in formal rows one above the other.

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The iconostas contains sometimes as many as seven rows of images: that of the _Uspenski Sobor_ [1] has five.

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In the dim distance, seemingly a wall of gold, is the iconostas, the solid screen which in every church divides the sanctuary from the rest of the sacred edifice.

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These images that you view across the carved and silver-gilt work of the iconostas, where they are ranged symmetrically upon the golden screen opening their large fixed eyes and raising their brown hand with the fingers turned in a symbolic fashion, produce, by means of their somewhat savage, superhuman and immutable traditional aspect, a religious impression not to be found in more advanced works of art.

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But the greatest marvel in this Cathedral of the Assumption is the iconostas, or screen for the sacred pictures, a structure indispensable to all Russian churches, of which I have withheld the description till now, when I find myself in front of a large and more astounding erection than can be found in St. Petersburg, Moscow, or Troitza.

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At the back, the iconostas looms up in the twilight shot through with rays like a golden and jewelled wall between the faithful and the priests of the sanctuary.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

Finally, he conducted us into his private chapel, where, on the iconostas, -- the screen which, in accordance with the Greek ritual, stands before the altar, -- the sacred images of the Saviour and various saints were represented somewhat differently from those in the Russo-Greek Church, especially in that they extended two fingers instead of three.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

Some woodcarving of the golden surfaced iconostas were completed the 17th century

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Some woodcarving of the golden surfaced iconostas were completed the 17th century

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Some woodcarving of the golden surfaced iconostas were completed the 17th century

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