Ukuta wa picha

Ukuta wa picha ni ukuta ambao umejaa picha takatifu na unatenganisha patakatifu na sehemu kubwa ya kanisa hasa katika madhehebu ya Waorthodoksi.

Kwa Kigiriki unaitwa εἰκονοστάσι(-ον), eikonostasion, eidonostasis, yaani panapowekewa picha, kutokana na eikon, picha, na histemi, naweka).

Waamini wanaelekea altare iliyopo nyuma ya ukuta huo, lakini kwa kawaida hawawezi kuona kinachofanyika huko, kwa sababu ni fumbo la imani. Badala yake wanatazama picha hizo zinazoinua mawazo yao kwa Mungu na kwa maajabu aliyowatendea binadamu hasa katika historia ya wokovu.

Tanbihi

Bock, Franz Johann Joseph, The Hangings of the Ciborium of the Altar (translated section of his Organ fur Christliche Kunst), The Ecclesiologist, Volume 26, 1868, Ecclesiological Society/Stevenson, google books
"Grove", van Hemeldonck, G., "Ciborium (ii)." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, subscription required, (accessed April 25, 2011).

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 Photo of early iconostasis. Church of the Aposltes, Athens 1000 AD 
 The Bulgarian orthodox iconostasis

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