Homemade Orthodox Church Altars

A home altar with a large icon of the Last Judgment draped in a striped shawl, set above a table holding religious icons, a lit lantern, a potted plant, a cross, and a gilded book on a colorful serape runner.
An Orthodox religious altar setup featuring an icon of Christ with a crown of thorns, a wooden cross, embroidered cloth, candles, a metal censer, and an ornately embossed gospel book.
A projector screen hung in a living room displays a live-streamed Orthodox Christian liturgy, showing a priest at an altar surrounded by iconostasis paintings of saints.
A home prayer altar featuring a lit lantern candle, an icon depicting biblical scenes, gold liturgical vestments with a wooden cross, and a printed Daily Vespers prayer sheet on a wooden table.
Title
Homemade Orthodox Church Altars
Description
Many members of the congregation of St. Mary Orthodox Church set up their own altars in their home to worship along side the live stream services of the church.
Date Created
2020
Community
St. Mary Orthodox Church
Denomination
Romanian Orthodox
State
Virginia
Place
Falls Church
Genre
Image
Institution
Logo featuring a red grid of four squares labeled C, H, N, and M, beside the text "Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media" in bold black font.Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Language
English and Romanian

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