💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Iconstasis"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| iconostasisnoun | (Eastern Orthodoxy) A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in an Eastern Orthodox church. |
| iconodulismnoun | The veneration of religious icons. |
| stations of the crossnoun | A religious ceremony based on station-to-station prayer at each of these icons. |
| iconnoun | (graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something. |
| reredosnoun | (chiefly Western Christianity) A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images, akin to the iconostasis of the Eastern Churches. |
| diaconiconnoun | A sacristy for sacred vessels in a Greek church, on the south side of the bema or sanctuary. |
| ikonanoun | (Christianity, art) An Eastern Orthodox icon, or religious painting. |
| iconodulynoun | iconodulism |
| stavropegionnoun | Alternative form of stauropegion. [(initially) In Eastern Orthodoxy, the placement of a cross by a bishop which symbolises his approval of the construction of a church or monastery on the site the cross is placed.] |
| stavropihiianoun | Alternative form of stauropegion. [(initially) In Eastern Orthodoxy, the placement of a cross by a bishop which symbolises his approval of the construction of a church or monastery on the site the cross is placed.] |
| stauropegionnoun | (later) In Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism, an autonomous Orthodox church body (church, monastery, brotherhood, lavra, theological school) which does not answer to any local hierarch, but is ruled directly by the highest authority of the church, i.e. the primate of the said church (e.g. a Patriarch) or in the case of the Russian Orthodox Church between 1721 and 1918 by the Most Holy Synod. Similar to a personal prelature. |
| synthrononnoun | (Eastern Orthodoxy) A structure, in the apse, containing the cathedra and seating for priests assisting a bishop. |
| kondakionnoun | Alternative form of kontakion. [(Eastern Orthodoxy) A form of hymn or poem recited as a dialogue between a chanter and the choir.] |
| iconophilismnoun | A love of icons, or religious images. |
| artophorionnoun | (Eastern Orthodoxy) The tabernacle on the high altar in an Eastern Orthodox church |
| iconolatrynoun | The veneration of celebrities. |
| station-to-stationnoun | (baseball) A contranym which may mean: |
| cloisternoun | A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially: |
| proskynitarionnoun | (orthodox Christianity) Alternative form of proskynetarion. [(Eastern Orthodoxy) an object of religious reverence] |
| stasisnoun | (figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. |
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