Byzantine Icons, the word icon is derived from the Greek eikon, meaning an image. Wooden icons are popularly known as the art of Eastern Orthodox Christianity (that is, the branch of Christianity which is peculiar to Byzantium, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Russia). But they are also much more. Graphically, they illustrate religious or patriotic stories from the Bible, the Chronicle, the lives (zhitie) of saints and other Christian sources. Icons are both images of a more perfect world which Christians believe is present in or behind the world we can sense, and objects of prayer and veneration.
Orthodox icons were, and still are, created for prayer and liturgical use in the church and for personal prayers at home or in travel. Icons often were so beautifully and skillfully made, however, that they also attracted the attention of private collectors and museums. Icons can be seen in churches and museums all over the world today.
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In our collection you can find Holy icons exact replicate of Byzantine art, which subjects are taken from originals in museums, monasteries and private collections.

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