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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 275 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ICONOSTASIS , the See also:

SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with Lat. scrinium, a box for holding books, from scribere, to write; a connexion with Ger. Schranke, barrier, has been suggested)

screen in a See also:

Greek See also:

church which divides the See also:

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar and See also:

SANCTUARY (from the late Lat. sanctuarium, a sacred place)

sanctuary from the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the church. It is generally attached to the first eastern See also:

PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

pier or See also:

COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column and rises to the level of the springing of the vault. The iconostasis or See also:

IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

image-See also:

BEARER

bearer has generally three doors, one on each See also:

side of the central See also:

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door, beyond which is the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal altar. The screen is sub-divided into four or five tiers, each tier decorated with a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of panels containing representations of the See also:

SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints: of these 275 only the heads, hands and feet are painted, the bodies being covered with embossed See also:

metal See also:

WORK

work, richly gilded. There is a See also:

FINE

fine example in the Russo-Greek See also:

CHAPEL

chapel, Welbeck See also:

Street, See also:

LONDON

London, which was rebuilt in 1864-1865.

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