Antique Imperial Russian Home Chapel Church Corner Iconostasis Icon Mother&Child

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Antique Imperial Russian Home Chapel Church Corner Iconostasis Icon Mother&Child:
$108.00

Provenance: Private collection.

A lovely antique hand-carved Russian Orthodox Home Chapel village Iconostasis. Brass icon with Holy Mother and Child inside.

size: 21\" x 9.5\" x 6\"

condition: good with some traces of age on wood as seen. Sold as is with no returns. all original piece late 19th century to early 1900`s

In the past, whether on a farm or in the city, every Orthodox family’s home would always have a shelf with icons, or an entire home iconostasis, located in the most visible place. The place where the icons were installed was known as the front corner, the beautiful corner, the holy corner, God’s place, or the kiot.

For Orthodox Christians, an icon is not just a depiction of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Mother of God, the Saints, or events from Sacred and Church History. An icon is a sacred image, i.e., it is outside the realm of ordinary reality; it is not to be confused with ordinary daily life; and it is intended only for communion with God. Thus, the primary purpose of icons is prayer. An icon is a window from our World, the Earthly World, into the World above. It is God’s revelation in form and color.