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 ...

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 ...

The Synod of Elvira (c. 300–314) stated: “Pictures are not to be placed in churches, so that they do not become objects of ...

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 ...

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.

The thinking behind the Russian Orthodox Church's famous icons By Andrew Louth If you go into an Orthodox church, what is perhaps most striking is the multitude of pictures to be seen. Everywhere you ...

Photo by MARK H. HUNTER -- Anna Christian lights a candle near the icons of Lady Theotokus (Virgin Mary) and Christ at St. Matthew the Apostle Orthodox Church following a Sunday service. Her father, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...