Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
iconostasis .
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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Some woodcarving of the golden surfaced iconostas were completed the 17th century
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Some woodcarving of the golden surfaced iconostas were completed the 17th century
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Some woodcarving of the golden surfaced iconostas were completed the 17th century
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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