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Definition of Iconostasis

1. [n -STASES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Iconostasis

Literary usage of Iconostasis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Two pictures or icons must appear upon every iconostasis, no matter how humble, ... But in the finer churches of Russia, Greece, Turkey, iconostasis IN THE ..."

2. A Memorial of Andrew J. Shipman: His Life and Writings by Andrew Jackson Shipman (1916)
"Two pictures or icons must appear upon every iconostasis, no matter how humble, in the Greek church; the picture of Our Lord on the right of the royal door, ..."

3. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"feature, however, that we have to trace the rood-screen of the Gothic churches on the one hand, and the iconostasis * of the Greek on the other. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"According to Gear, the iconostasis owe i sent close form to a reaction against tb< to clastic fury of the 8th century, as more ample space for the ..."

5. The Church of the Holy Apostles by Alison Frantz (1971)
"We are probably therefore justified in attributing it to the Holy Apostles.21 THE iconostasis Part of the foundation for the iconostasis was found between ..."

6. A Visit to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon (1852)
"... Ambuscade—A successful Parley— The Monastery of St. Sabba—History of the Saint—The Greek Hermits—The Church—The iconostasis—The Library—Numerous MSS. ..."

7. Visits to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon (1881)
"... Ambuscade—A Successful Parley—The Monastery of St. Sabba—History of the Saint—The Greek Hermits— The Church—The iconostasis—The Library—Numerous MSS. ..."

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