If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look like simple drawings, but each one has a purpose and a specialized artist, an ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- It's a project eight years in the making. The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition combines ...

POCATELLO — Ardently involved with the Gate City’s Greek Orthodox Church, Danny Thiros, the late husband of Idaho State University Athletic Director Pauline Thiros, longed for the historic church ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. – A Serbian Orthodox church in upstate New York is among the latest sanctuaries to be gilded with the work of one of the most well-known American painters of iconography. The Rev.

Icons seem to be everywhere. Smartphones have them; computers, too. They partner illustration with desired information. Churches, too, boast their share of images that do roughly the same thing. Front ...

According to a story in the Old Testament, three youths were thrown into a fiery furnace by an angry king, but were not harmed. They sang amid the flames, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church pastor the Rev.

Anna Schalk finds herself weeping each time she enters an Orthodox church and gazes at the flat, colorful icons of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The impressionistic painter had long been drawn to ...

The first thing one notices at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in the Park Merced neighborhood in San Francisco is the soaring, 100-foot ceiling, the soft, otherworldly blue-tinged light from ...

John Filippakis slept Tuesday night surrounded by saints, prophets and apostles. That celestial community may have eased the bareness of his bed — a pew in the darkened St. Paul Antiochian Orthodox ...

Officials at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Winston-Salem talked this past week about the church’s iconography project. Father George Kouzelis, the church’s parish priest, said the ...

For Lara Neri, painting icons is a kind of prayer. “It’s probably the most intense prayer that I do,” said Neri, a Byzantine Catholic from Dallas, referring to the dozens of hours she spent in a class ...