Icons
Icon
An image of Christ, the Mother of God, a saint or a sacred event, made for prayer — not a painting and not a portrait.
Icons
Что означают слова, которые звучат в храме: облачения, богослужения, таинства, устройство храма.
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Icons
Icons of the Theotokos: the main types
There are hundreds of Marian icons but only a few types — Hodegetria, Eleusa, Oranta and the enthroned Theotokos — enough to identify almost any of them.
Icons
Inscriptions on icons
IC XC, MP ΘΥ, NIKA, Ο ΩΝ — the short inscriptions that complete an icon and let you read it rather than merely look at it.