Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the Gr.Ch., a movable desk or stand on which icons are placed, especially the icon of the festival or the saint of the day.

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Examples

  • For example, many Canadian Anglican churches opened their doors to Greek immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s, lending space for services, or allowing a permanent set-up of the iconostasion (liturgical wall with icons) as in the basement of St. Paul's, Cataraqui.

    Anglican National News 2008

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