Catholic Match Iconostasis

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Madaglan said:
Catholic Match responded to my question. They said that it is a stock photo and they do not know the name of the church.
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I’ve googled every combination of St Nicholas Ukrainian/Melkite/Ruthenian/Eastern/Greek Catholic parish/cathedral/church I can think of. No luck so far. 🤷

Yours in Christ
Joe
 
I feel like everybody here is doing detective work. The thing that gets me is the golden railing in front of the ikonostas and altar. I’m just guessing and probably wrong but that railing would seem to indicate that at one time Communion was given in the old latin style (as it was in my Ukrainian Catholic parish way back) with people kneeling at the front railing to receive. Posthumously, the railing was taken down and an ikonostas put up in my church when we went back to our roots. Do the Orthodox have railings in front of the ikonostas?
 
KyivAndrew said:
I feel like everybody here is doing detective work. The thing that gets me is the golden railing in front of the ikonostas and altar. I’m just guessing and probably wrong but that railing would seem to indicate that at one time Communion was given in the old latin style (as it was in my Ukrainian Catholic parish way back) with people kneeling at the front railing to receive. Posthumously, the railing was taken down and an ikonostas put up in my church when we went back to our roots. Do the Orthodox have railings in front of the ikonostas?
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Not in any of the Orthodox churches I’ve been to. Maybe some ACROD parishes.
 
KyivAndrew said:
I feel like everybody here is doing detective work. The thing that gets me is the golden railing in front of the ikonostas and altar. I’m just guessing and probably wrong but that railing would seem to indicate that at one time Communion was given in the old latin style (as it was in my Ukrainian Catholic parish way back) with people kneeling at the front railing to receive. Posthumously, the railing was taken down and an ikonostas put up in my church when we went back to our roots. Do the Orthodox have railings in front of the ikonostas?
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I noticed the railing also.
The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension near San Francisco has a railing. Thanks be to God I’ve been in the Church many times, tho I am not Orthodox. I think it’s not really a railing per se but holds kneelers :eek: which may be visible in this photo I assume are for the people sitting in the front pews. Someone can correct me. 🙂 Maybe there is some liturgy I’m unfamiliar with where people would come forward and kneel on them other than those folks sitting on the pews in front of them. As I recall people process up close to the iconostasis, on the other side of that railing, for communion and other blessings. And yes they also have an organ. 🙂
 
KyivAndrew said:
I feel like everybody here is doing detective work. The thing that gets me is the golden railing in front of the ikonostas and altar. I’m just guessing and probably wrong but that railing would seem to indicate that at one time Communion was given in the old latin style (as it was in my Ukrainian Catholic parish way back) with people kneeling at the front railing to receive. Posthumously, the railing was taken down and an ikonostas put up in my church when we went back to our roots. Do the Orthodox have railings in front of the ikonostas?
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That was my first thought as well although I have seen some pictures of rails and stained glass behind the altar in some ACROD parishes.

Yours in Christ
Joe
 
That choir is neither Orthodox nor EC, they are simply a children’s choir.
 
josephdaniel29 said:
Here is the image.

If we can figure out who the icon to the left of the Theotokos is maybe we can get a clue as to the parish. The icons are very Byzantine in style not in the neo-classical style you sometimes see in Russian parishes. I’m not sure what to make of the stained glass behind the altar.
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I’m more curious regarding the icon on the far right. I have found that is where the church’s patron’s icon is located in the Ukrainian Catholic churches that I have attended. When I saw this picture, it reminded me of my childhood parish, sans the communion rail.
 
mariyka said:
I’m more curious regarding the icon on the far right. I have found that is where the church’s patron’s icon is located in the Ukrainian Catholic churches that I have attended. When I saw this picture, it reminded me of my childhood parish, sans the communion rail.
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It looks to me like the person may be a monk. Does anyone know of any popular Ukrainian monastic saints?

Yours in Christ
Joe
 
Well, maybe my eyesight is giving out, but it looks to me like he is holding a church in his hands, which could point to Saint Volodymyr, who Christianized Kyivan-Rus/Ukraine. I know in my Ukrainian Catholic eparchy we have one Saint Volodymyr the Great Church, but I have never been there. In any event, I’m not so sure it is Saint Volodymyr. Is he holding a church or something else?
 
KyivAndrew said:
Well, maybe my eyesight is giving out, but it looks to me like he is holding a church in his hands, which could point to Saint Volodymyr, who Christianized Kyivan-Rus/Ukraine. I know in my Ukrainian Catholic eparchy we have one Saint Volodymyr the Great Church, but I have never been there. In any event, I’m not so sure it is Saint Volodymyr. Is he holding a church or something else?
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I think you may be right. 🙂
 
To my eyes, the icon on the far right looks like St. Ephrem or another monk in a habit.
 
It is beautiful.

Does anyone know the effort or cost of making such an item???
 
Was there ever a final response from Catholic Match on the original email?
 
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