iconostasis
noun
ico·nos·ta·sis
ˌī-kə-ˈnä-stə-səs 
(ˌ)ī-ˈkä-nə-ˌstä-səs
(ˌ)ī-ˈkä-nə-ˌstä-səs
plural iconostases
ˌī-kə-ˈnä-stə-ˌsēz
(ˌ)ī-ˈkä-nə-ˌstä-
: a screen or partition with doors and tiers of icons that separates the bema from the nave in Eastern churches
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Additionally Romanian Police recovered a 19th-century wooden iconostasis stolen from a church and sold online.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
22 July 2024
Originally, the iconostasis hung inside a wooden church at the Manyava Orthodox Monastery in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in what was then Polish Galicia.
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Joshua Hammer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 May 2022
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
22 July 2024
Originally, the iconostasis hung inside a wooden church at the Manyava Orthodox Monastery in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in what was then Polish Galicia.
—
Joshua Hammer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 May 2022
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“Iconostasis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iconostasis. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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