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Home altars often contain a cross or crucifix, an image of Jesus Christ, a copy of the Bible (especially a Family Bible), a breviary and/or other prayer book, a daily devotional, and prayer beads, among other religious articles specific to the individual's Christian denomination, for example, the images of the saints for Catholics, the Small ...
French home stoup. A Holy Spirit-themed stoup. A home stoup is a small stoup with a small bowl and a decorated plaque that Christians in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran traditions hang inside homes, [1] [2] either at the house's entrance or, more commonly, on a bedroom wall at the head of the bed. [3]
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia with an icon corner in her bedroom (1915 or 1916, colorized by her sister Maria). The icon corner , sacred corner or red corner , ( Greek : εικονοστάσι ) is a small Christian worship space prepared in the homes of Eastern Orthodox , Greek-Catholic , Eastern Lutheran and Roman Catholic [ 1 ...
Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.
This architectural tradition for the two main parts can be seen carried forward in Christian churches and is still most demonstratively present in Eastern Orthodox churches where the iconostasis divides the altar, the Holy of Holies where the Eucharist is performed – the manifestation of the New Covenant – from the larger portion of the ...
A retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. More generally retablo is also the Spanish term for a retable or reredos above an altar, whether a large altarpiece painting or an elaborate wooden structure with sculptures. Typically this includes ...
Sacral architecture (also known as sacred architecture or religious architecture) is a religious architectural practice concerned with the design and construction of places of worship or sacred or intentional space, such as churches, mosques, stupas, synagogues, and temples. Many cultures devoted considerable resources to their sacred ...
13th-century Yaroslavl Gospels, with curtained ciborium in the centre; a common motif in Evangelist portraits. Images and documentary mentions of early examples often have curtains called tetravela hung between the columns; these altar-curtains were used to cover and then reveal the view of the altar by the congregation at points during services — exactly which points varied, and is often ...