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 ...

Icons have been a part of the Russian Orthodox faith for thousands of years as a physical expression of worship. They’ve been displayed at churches, carried into battle and each iron has been publicly ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...

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 ...

Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...

For those who have been to an Orthodox service, one thing that probably stands out most in their experience is the adornment of the church with icons. Orthodox Christians make the sign of the cross ...

DALLAS — With every layer of glue and paint and varnish, Vladimir Grigorenko is building a bridge to God. The bridge of faith has already carried him from the faith-challenged post-Soviet Ukraine to ...

WARREN — It was almost standing-room only as community members gathered this past week to view and pray to the Icon of Saint Paraskevi, which made a stop at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church and ...

Every year on or around Epiphany, a group of Eastern Orthodox Christian faithful from Denver forms a carpool caravan and drives three hours to the Continental Divide at Monarch Pass, Colo. They make ...