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 ...

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 ...

George Kordis wielded a charcoal-tipped drawing stick one recent morning, sketching in bold strokes the outlines of disciples Peter, James and John on the cream-colored walls of Holy Trinity Greek ...

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 ...

Orthodox Christians revere Russian icons as sacred devotional pieces. But to others around the world, they are magnificent treasures, collected and cherished for their beauty, artistry and history.

https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.8.1.0084 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.8.1.0084 Copy URL Abstract African Americans regularly join Eastern ...