English
Noun
iconostasis (plural iconostases)
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in an Eastern Orthodox church.
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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)
- Azeri: 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) m
- Georgian: კანკელი (ḳanḳeli)
- German: Ikonostase f
- Greek: εικονοστάσιο (el) n (eikonostásio)
- Hebrew: איקונוסטאזיס m (aykonostazis)
- Hungarian: ikonosztáz (hu)
- Irish: íocónastáis f
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