Icon corner tips?

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I already have made my home altar and I am now looking to create my own icon corner. Does anybody have any tips or advice for creating one? Arrangements, places to buy icons, locations within a room for it?
 
Ideally, the icon corner should face east if possible. Otherwise, just make sure it’s a quiet place that you can truly call your prayer corner or icon corner. Reserve that space as a holy place. Beyond that, my recommendations would be, at minimum, if you can:
  1. An icon of the cross in the center somewhere
  2. An icon of Jesus to the right of the cross
  3. An icon of Mary to the left of the cross
Extras, if you can:
  1. An icon of your favorite two (perhaps one is your patron) saints - one to the left of Mary and the other to the right of Jesus
  2. The appropriate festal icon (i.e., November 8 is the Feast of the Synaxis of the Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Powers: Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, and Jeremiel - so perhaps an Icon of St. Michael might be in order)
  3. A candle to light
  4. A Bible or other spiritual reading
  5. Any sacramentals you would prefer (i.e., rosary, chotki, holy water, etc.)
For recommendations on where to buy icons…first, check your local Eastern Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Churches. They often have icons to sell and can order you what you want if needed. That way you are giving some help to your local Churches. IF that doesn’t work, there are monasteries and such online to order from. Some good ones are:
  1. Dormition Skete (dormitionskete.org/) - I have bought from them - love the quality and the service
  2. Ancient Faith Store (store.ancientfaith.com/icons/) - Who doesn’t love AFR?
  3. St. Tikohn’s Monastery Bookstore (stspress.com/product-category/icons/) - great selection from a wonderful, holy, monastery
These are just my opinions. I hope they help though. 👍
 
Google “icon corners”, then click on “images”. Look at what others have done and see if anything resonates with you. Enjoy!
 
BusterMartin said:
Ideally, the icon corner should face east if possible. Otherwise, just make sure it’s a quiet place that you can truly call your prayer corner or icon corner. Reserve that space as a holy place. Beyond that, my recommendations would be, at minimum, if you can:
  1. An icon of the cross in the center somewhere
  2. An icon of Jesus to the right of the cross
  3. An icon of Mary to the left of the cross
Extras, if you can:
  1. An icon of your favorite two (perhaps one is your patron) saints - one to the left of Mary and the other to the right of Jesus
  2. The appropriate festal icon (i.e., November 8 is the Feast of the Synaxis of the Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Powers: Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, and Jeremiel - so perhaps an Icon of St. Michael might be in order)
  3. A candle to light
  4. A Bible or other spiritual reading
  5. Any sacramentals you would prefer (i.e., rosary, chotki, holy water, etc.)
For recommendations on where to buy icons…first, check your local Eastern Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Churches. They often have icons to sell and can order you what you want if needed. That way you are giving some help to your local Churches. IF that doesn’t work, there are monasteries and such online to order from. Some good ones are:
  1. Dormition Skete (dormitionskete.org/) - I have bought from them - love the quality and the service
  2. Ancient Faith Store (store.ancientfaith.com/icons/) - Who doesn’t love AFR?
  3. St. Tikohn’s Monastery Bookstore (stspress.com/product-category/icons/) - great selection from a wonderful, holy, monastery
These are just my opinions. I hope they help though. 👍
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Wow. Thanks for the advice. It is very appreciated. Thank you.
 
It is greatly preferentially based. Bustermartin gives very good advice. I would say it is nonnegotiable that the place be devoted to solely that.

I do not have any hard and fast rules (and as a Syriac I would cringe from giving you any :p). If you don’t mind, I’ll simply share what I do. I’ve basically just accrued things over time. My cross is not with me at the moment, but I usually have a St. Thomas cross in the middle above the icon of the resurrection (a gift I received in Crete, center because it is thematically dominical). The three uniform icons are from Holy Transfiguration (bostonmonks.com) - they are some of my favorite saints (St. Jude, St. Ignatius and the Holy Youths). The small icons are from Jerusalem, the one on the right is the Assumption and the one on the left is St. Michael. The four candles I scavenged from discarded candles in the local area. The big blue book is the Syriac book of general offices, the book behind the resurrection icon is a bible, and the books in front are my handheld book of offices and the thin book is a list of intentions (friends, family, enemies, requests, misc.), which I read through before I pray.

As I said, at least to a Syriac, these things are largely preferential especially since there aren’t large caches of Syriac icons. Depending on your living situation, hanging lamps are a nice touch. I never really intended on having so many icons, I usually go for just two.

https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=96d7f2e8fc8b118fe329581dcfac47b1&oe=58BF4042

Nota bene: Do not buy from Monastery Icons, they are a weird pagan cult.
 
Addendum: The best room in which to place it varies on the preference of the person, of course, but generally the most reserved and private space would be the bedroom.
 
MorEphrem said:
It is greatly preferentially based. Bustermartin gives very good advice. I would say it is nonnegotiable that the place be devoted to solely that.

I do not have any hard and fast rules (and as a Syriac I would cringe from giving you any :p). If you don’t mind, I’ll simply share what I do. I’ve basically just accrued things over time. My cross is not with me at the moment, but I usually have a St. Thomas cross in the middle above the icon of the resurrection (a gift I received in Crete, center because it is thematically dominical). The three uniform icons are from Holy Transfiguration (bostonmonks.com) - they are some of my favorite saints (St. Jude, St. Ignatius and the Holy Youths). The small icons are from Jerusalem, the one on the right is the Assumption and the one on the left is St. Michael. The four candles I scavenged from discarded candles in the local area. The big blue book is the Syriac book of general offices, the book behind the resurrection icon is a bible, and the books in front are my handheld book of offices and the thin book is a list of intentions (friends, family, enemies, requests, misc.), which I read through before I pray.

As I said, at least to a Syriac, these things are largely preferential especially since there aren’t large caches of Syriac icons. Depending on your living situation, hanging lamps are a nice touch. I never really intended on having so many icons, I usually go for just two.

https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=96d7f2e8fc8b118fe329581dcfac47b1&oe=58BF4042

Nota bene: Do not buy from Monastery Icons, they are a weird pagan cult.
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It’s a good thing I read this. I was about to consider buying from Monastry Icons. I’m curious how they are a pagan cult. I do like the link for icons you provided. Thanks for it.
 
Cyril_Of_Canada said:
It’s a good thing I read this. I was about to consider buying from Monastry Icons. I’m curious how they are a pagan cult. I do like the link for icons you provided. Thanks for it.
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The “monastery” went from Buddhist to pseudo-Christian to Hindu/NewAge. They are not Christian, many of their “icons” are pagan god/desses and not saints. Avoid!
 
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