KINGSTON, N.Y. — Artist Miltiadis Afentoulis of Nyack is painting eight Byzantine-style icons depicting the life events of Jesus on the walls of the sanctuary of St. George’s Greek Orthodox ...

Dhimitris Gkinos, an assistant to Iconographer Leoidas Diamantopoulos, dips his brush in paint Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, while working with group from Athens to paint several Greek Orthodox icons ...

St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in southwest Las Vegas raised $400,000 to install new icons on the church walls. Work will continue through June.

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

The Rev. Dobrivoje Milunovic, the presiding priest of Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in the O’Hare neighborhood, was one of the first priests to visit to venerate the icon.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Icons of all the namesakes of Utah Orthodox churches at St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church in Cottonwood Heights, Friday Aug. 3, 2018. 1 2 ...

Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church on Grand Avenue. From 1959 to 1981, ... On the door’s left is an icon of Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus with halos over their heads.

To mark Jesus’ destruction of Hades (the Greek term is synonymous with Hell; Orthodox do not believe in purgatory) and freeing of the dead, parishioners threw bay leaves and flowers into the air ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- With ancient chants, hymns, and Bible passages, members of Sts. Constantine and Helen Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church laid the icon of the crucified Jesus to rest Friday ...

Greek Villagers Claim Figure of Jesus Has 'Wept Since Syriza Win' Published Feb 18, 2015 at 11:50 AM EST Updated Mar 17, 2016 at 2:16 PM EDT The Bishop of Corinth inspecting the icon on his visit ...

For about the past 10 years, the Archives Committee has set up shop during the Greek Festival to sell icons — mostly reproductions of paintings, mounted on varnished wood.

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus Ch… ...