Christ the Teacher - Almighty Mini Icon 2-1/2" x 3"

Size: 3" H x 2-1/2" W on wood

Foil embossed icon from Russia.

What is an icon?  
Orthodox Iconography is the visual expression of Church doctrine.  Therefore icons are not secular pictures with a religious topic, but art which, by its obedience to the canons of the faith, is an expression in lines and color of the teachings which the scriptures, the writings of the fathers, and other verbal expressions, express in words. Read more