iconostasis

iconostasis

English

Iconostasis in the church of the Cocoș Monastery, Romania

Noun

iconostasis (plural iconostases)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in a church of eastern Christendom.
   • 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 10, in Friday's Business‎:

     The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.

Translations

a wall of icons

Albanian: ikonastasi Arabic: الحاجز الأيقوني‎ m (al-ḥājiz al-'ayqūny) Armenian: պատկերակալ (hy) (patkerakal) Azerbaijani: ikonostas Basque: ikonostasi Belarusian: іканастас m (ikanastás) Bulgarian: иконостас m (ikonostás) Catalan: iconòstasi m Chinese: Mandarin: 聖像壁, 圣像壁 (shèngxiàngbì), 聖障, 圣障 (shèngzhàng) Czech: ikonostas m Danish: ikonostase Dutch: iconostase Esperanto: ikonostazo Estonian: ikonostaas Finnish: ikonostaasi (fi) French: iconostase (fr) f Georgian: კანკელი (ḳanḳeli) German: Ikonostase f Greek: εικονοστάσιο (el) n (eikonostásio) Hebrew: איקונוסטאזיס‎ m (aykonostazis) Hungarian: ikonosztáz (hu) Irish: íocónastáis f

Italian: iconostasi (it) Japanese: イコノスタシス (ikonosutashisu) Korean: 성화벽 (seonghwabyeok) Latvian: ikonostass m Lithuanian: ikonostasas (lt) m Macedonian: иконостас m (ikonostas) Norwegian: Bokmål: ikonostasis Nynorsk: ikonostas Polish: ikonostas (pl) m Portuguese: iconóstase Romanian: iconostas (ro), tâmplă (ro), catapeteasmă (ro) Russian: иконоста́с (ru) m (ikonostás) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: иконостас m Roman: ikonostas (sh) m Slovak: ikonostas m Slovene: ikonostas (sl) m Spanish: iconostasio (es) m Swedish: ikonostas (sv) Turkish: ikonostas Ukrainian: іконостас (uk) m (ikonostás)