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To: Kolokotronis; kosta50
And two weeks ago, I went to a glorious Cerkiew in Praga: +Mary Magdalena





it is awe-inspiringly beautiful!
19 posted on 09/22/2010 3:31:44 AM PDT by Cronos (This Church is holy, the one Church, the true Church, the Catholic Church-St.Augustine)
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To: Cronos; kosta50

Great pictures! The iconography, you undoubtedly noticed, is quite “realistic. This is emblematic of late 19th / early 20th century Russian influence. One sees the same sort of iconography in Greece in churches from the same era. Here, especially in New England, the iconography from the immediate post WWI and into the 1920s era is very similar, much of which was written by one itinerant iconograher whose work shows up all over the place in Greek and Antiochian churches, like my own home parish.


20 posted on 09/22/2010 4:04:42 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Cronos

Absolutely beautiful photos. Thanks for scanning and posting them.


21 posted on 09/22/2010 10:09:13 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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