Orthodox icons and Christian goods for sale in the North America
All icon are represented on this site are for sale.
Their size is 3 3/4" x 4 3/4" (12 cm x 10 cm). Price is $6, shipping is $3 to any USA and Canada destination
To place an order please email us info@orthodoxicon.org
The word "icon" (from the Greek "eikon") means "image", "representation" or "portrait". This applies first and foremost to images of Christ. The Apostle Paul calls Christ, the Divine Word, the icon of God the Father: "Who is the image of the invisible God".
Christ Pantocrator
Our Lady "Az est s nami"
Our Lady of Don
Old Testament Trinity
Icons are an integral part of the Orthodox Tradition, It is hard to imagine an Orthodox church and service, or an Orthodox believer's home and life without them. In birth and death, departing on along journey or beginning a new enterprise, he or she is accompanied by these holy images, icons.
The Orthodox Church regards icons not merely as a form of church art, albeit the main one, but as the visible expression of the Orthodox faith.
The principle of Orthodox theology lies not in proving the Truth, but in bearing witness to it. Icons are one of the languages of theology, by means of which the Church carries the glad tidings into the world, bears witness to the truth, and reveals Christ and His Church Triumphant, that is, transfigured, deified mankind.
Do icons contradict the second commandment, which forbids us to worship graven images? This was the charge leveled against the ico-nophiles by the iconoclasts, who ulled them idolaters and destroyers of the Word of God Similar accusations are sometimes made by Protestants against Orthodox believers to this day.
The veneration of icons does not
really contradict the commandment not to worship graven images. After speaking with the Lord by the burning bush Moses warns Israel 'Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image <..> lest you [Israel] be driven to worship them, and serve them" (Deut.4. 15-1 9). When the Divine Word became flesh, however, incarnate, it became capable of being depicted also. This is why St John of Damascus wrote: "When you see the incorporeal become flesh for your sake, then depict the likeness of Him who has appeared. When He Who, by virtue of the superiors of His nature, lacks body and form, quantity and quality, and dimension, Who, being in the form of God, took upon himself the form of a servant (PhiL 2, 6-7), and in so doing became limited both quantitatively and qualitatively and assumed human form, then sketch on panels and display for the contemplation of Him who did so desire to revel Himself" .
Our Lady of Feodorovo
Our Lady of Kazan
Our Lady "Neuviadaemii Tsvet"