In an Eastern Orthodox Church, it is a screen, with icons on it, which separates the sanctuary from the nave.
The screen, decorated with icons which separates the bema from the main area of an Orthodox church.
The screen of Icons seperating the santuary from the body of the church, and peirced by three doors. The central doorway, which is closed by double gates and a curtain, is known as the Royal Doors.
(Greek) In Eastern Christianity: The dividing wall between nave and sanctuary in Orthodox churches, usually with a central and two side entrances and panels for icons. The main icons depict Christ as Savior, Mary as Mother of God, the Last Supper, the four Evangelists, archangels and saints.
a screen, with doors, which divides the nave from the sanctuary and on which icons are placed in a fixed order
In Eastern church buildings, a wall of icons separating the main body of the building from the altar area.
An altar screen or partition embellished with icons running across an entire end of a church. At first, an iconostasis was just a small wall that served as a symbolic marker of the division between the Sanctuary and the Nave, or between the heaven and the earth. Icons were placed on the small wall and eventually several rows were permanently installed, thus creating the wall seen today.
A large screen containing many icons of Christ, the Virgin and various saints.
a screen partitioning the altar area from the nave of the church on which icons are placed; the “Royal Doors” and deacons' doors allow the clergy and acolytes to enter or exit the altar.
The Icon Screen which separates the Holy Altar area from the main Church. See ours here
In Byzantine and Russian Churches, it was originally an open lattice, a bridge between the sanctuary and the nave. The iconostasis is now usually a screen pierced by three doors. Since at least the fourteenth century, there have been icons on the iconostasis. Return to Theme
(Gr., "stand for image"): The screen that separates the altar from the nave of the church, into which icons are set in place, thus blocking the view of the congregation.
A screen adorned with icons in a Coptic church separates the altar from the nave. Gk.
In Eastern Christianity an iconostasis (the plural is iconostases) is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a church. Iconostasis also refers to a portable icon stand that can be placed anywhere within a church. The modern iconostasis evolved from the Byzantine templon in the fifteenth century.