iconostasis

English

Iconostasis in the church of the Cocoș Monastery, Romania

Alternative forms

• iconstasis

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek εἰκονόστασις (eikonóstasis), from εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon”) + στάσις (stásis, “fixture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaɪkəˈnɒstəsɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

iconostasis (plural iconostases or iconostaseis)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in an Eastern Orthodox church.
   • 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 10, in Friday's Business‎^[1]:

     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: حَاجِز الأَيْقُونِيّ m (ḥājiz al-ʔayqūniyy)
• Armenian: պատկերակալ (hy) (patkerakal)
• Aromanian: icunustas
• Azerbaijani: ikonostas
• Basque: ikonostasi
• Belarusian: іканаста́с m (ikanastás)
• Bulgarian: иконоста́с 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 (nl)
• Esperanto: ikonostazo
• Estonian: ikonostaas
• Finnish: ikonostaasi (fi)
• French: iconostase (fr) f
• Georgian: კანკელი (ḳanḳeli)
• German: Ikonostase f
• Greek: εικονοστάσιο (el) n (eikonostásio)
• Hebrew: איקונוסטאזיס m (aykonostazis)
• Hungarian: ikonosztáz (hu)
• Irish: íocónastáis f
• Italian: iconostasi (it)
• Japanese: イコノスタシス (ikonosutashisu)
• Korean: 성화벽 (seonghwabyeok)
• Latvian: ikonostass m
• Lithuanian: ikonostasas (lt) m
• Macedonian: иконостас m (ikonostas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ikonostasis

  Nynorsk: ikonostas

• Polish: ikonostas (pl) m
• Portuguese: iconóstase
• Romanian: iconostas (ro), tâmplă (ro), catapeteasmă (ro)
• Russian: иконоста́с (ru) m (ikonostás)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: иконостас m

  Roman: ikonostas (sh) m

• Slovak: ikonostas m
• Slovene: ikonostas (sl) m
• Spanish: iconostasio (es) m
• Swedish: ikonostas (sv)
• Turkish: ikonostas
• Ukrainian: іконоста́с (uk) m (ikonostás)

See also

• templon