Icon corner

This article is about the religious Red Corner (Icon Corner). For the movie, see Red Corner.
The Sick Man by Vasili Maximov (1881) portrays a woman kneeling in prayer before the icon corner (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia with an icon corner in her bedroom (1915 or 1916, colorized by her sister Maria).

The icon corner, sacred corner or red corner, (Greek: εικονοστάσι) is a small Christian worship space prepared in the homes of Eastern Orthodox, Greek-Catholic, Eastern Lutheran and Roman Catholic[1] Christians. It has pre-Christian roots[2] and also appears in homes of Rodnovers.[3] The analogous concept in Western Christianity is the home altar.

  1. ^ Pokuć 2014, p. 53–54.
  2. ^ Mosio 2012, p. 154.
  3. ^ Shizhenskiy 2017, p. 164.