iconostasis
noun
ico·nos·ta·sis
ˌī-kə-ˈnä-stə-səs 
(ˌ)ī-ˈkä-nə-ˌstä-səs
(ˌ)ī-ˈkä-nə-ˌstä-səs
plural iconostases
ˌī-kə-ˈnä-stə-ˌsēz
(ˌ)ī-ˈkä-nə-ˌstä-
: a screen or partition with doors and tiers of icons that separates the bema from the nave in Eastern churches
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In Greece, the country’s police retrieved forty-three ancient amphorae through a pair of investigations, and in Romania, authorities rescued a wooden iconostasis dating from the nineteenth century that had been taken from a church and offered for sale online.
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News Desk, Artforum, 23 July 2024
Additionally Romanian Police recovered a 19th-century wooden iconostasis stolen from a church and sold online.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2024
Sinuously curving baseboards in an upstairs room, a seamless passage from wall to ceiling in the complicated stairwell, the hinges for the heavy stone doors of the iconostasis — if there was a standard way to execute each of these items, the architects specified another.
—Curbed, 6 Dec. 2022
Originally, the iconostasis hung inside a wooden church at the Manyava Orthodox Monastery in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in what was then Polish Galicia.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
A few meters away, a group walked down the majestic main staircase carrying a giant piece of sacred art, the 18th century Bohorodchany iconostasis.
—Bernat Armangué, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2022
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News Desk, Artforum, 23 July 2024
Additionally Romanian Police recovered a 19th-century wooden iconostasis stolen from a church and sold online.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2024
Sinuously curving baseboards in an upstairs room, a seamless passage from wall to ceiling in the complicated stairwell, the hinges for the heavy stone doors of the iconostasis — if there was a standard way to execute each of these items, the architects specified another.
—Curbed, 6 Dec. 2022
Originally, the iconostasis hung inside a wooden church at the Manyava Orthodox Monastery in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in what was then Polish Galicia.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
A few meters away, a group walked down the majestic main staircase carrying a giant piece of sacred art, the 18th century Bohorodchany iconostasis.
—Bernat Armangué, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2022
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“Iconostasis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iconostasis. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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