Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints and martyrs. The majority are painted in egg tempera on ...

<p>Along with images of Jesus Christ and his mother, the 12 apostles and several prophets, one of the many new icons at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre depicts the three young men ...

How icons are made Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Christian Church in Butte celebrated Christmas on January 7th. The church's interior is filled with iconography that interprets scripture through color and ink.

Alenandros Charito's feet dangle from the top level of the scaffolding while he and his colleagues install icons Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, above the altar of St. Spyridon Orthodox Church in Loveland.

St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in southwest Las Vegas raised $400,000 to install new icons on the church walls. Work will continue through June.

Russia's most famous icon -- the Trinity by Andrei Rublev -- was officially transferred to the use of Russia's Orthodox Church for a period of 49 years, despite protests from Russia's museum ...

The feast of Christ the King offers us three different visions of the final days. The first, from the prophet Ezekiel, suggests that, at the end of the world, God will finally appear as the good ...

The theological concept and truth “Christ is King” is honored and proclaimed throughout the New Testament, and no group can hijack something with such rich theological significance to ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, today dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the Church from a ...

Paintbrush and palette in hand, the Serbian Orthodox priest filled virtually every square inch of interior wall and ceiling with icons, sacred paintings depicting the life of Christ and the angels ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the Church ...