Icons have been a part of the Russian Orthodox faith for thousands of years as a physical expression of worship. They’ve been displayed at churches, carried into battle and each iron has been publicly ...
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 ...
Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...
The first thing one notices at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in the Park Merced neighborhood in San Francisco is the soaring, 100-foot ceiling, the soft, otherworldly blue-tinged light from ...
LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — The religious scenes playing out on the interior walls of St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church could have been painted centuries ago: Saints with gilded halos, winged angels hugging ...
MOSCOW — An icon held sacred by Pope John Paul II has been returned to Russia as a gesture of good will intended to help bridge the long-standing divide between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox ...
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 ...
DALLAS — With every layer of glue and paint and varnish, Vladimir Grigorenko is building a bridge to God. The bridge of faith has already carried him from the faith-challenged post-Soviet Ukraine to ...
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