Shrines

[Cappadocious]

(Based on information given in a thread elsewhere)

In Christianity, small shrines are erected to commemorate an event or person, honoring a vow, or to accompany travelers on the way.

Here are some small shrines called "Proskynitaria." This word comes from the verb "proskyneo" which means I worship/prostrate to/honor. The following examples are from Greece, Ukraine, Romania and America.

 

[Wgw]

Beautiful

 

[~Anastasia~]

Nice!

I especially love the idea of them being placed for the sake of travelers.

 

[Cappadocious]

Nice!

I especially love the idea of them being placed for the sake of travelers.

They are also placed in front of churches and homes just for the sake of having a shrine.

The same name is used for the small shrines we've been talking about, and the framed icons in wooden structures that you see inside of churches some times:

 

[~Anastasia~]

They are also placed in front of churches and homes just for the sake of having a shrine.

The same name is used for the small shrines we've been talking about, and the framed icons in wooden structures that you see inside of churches some times:

That's interesting. I don't think I've ever seen a thing like that though, except for the Epitathios placed inside the Kouvouklion, which I'm guessing doesn't fall in the same category?

 

[Simon Crosby]

These are really lovely

 

[Cappadocious]

 

[Wgw]

Beautiful.

I am on a business trip in the high desert; I have a makeshift shrine in my hotel room with icons of the our Lord and the Theotokos, St. Guillame, St. Anne of Volograd, and St. Basil.

 

[Rhamiel]

 

[Rhamiel]

someone put a shrine outside the headquarters of the communist party in venice

 

[Rhamiel]

 

[Cappadocious]

someone put a shrine outside the headquarters of the communist party in venice
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Perhaps the communists were thinking of a certain line in the magnificat! They should add a Virgin Mary.

 

[Wgw]

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This one I dislike as being sanguinary (and of course most Orthodox object to that devotion for various theological reasons anyway), however, the rest are quite nice.

 

[Cappadocious]

Here is a wiki article on roadside shrines in different cultures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayside_shrine

Here is another Romanian shrine:

 

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[Cappadocious]

Here is an example of a French or German "trampen shrine," probably made by a skilled craftsman in the 19th or early 20th century. An indoor shrine. This style of shrine uses scrap wood and other scrap parts:

 

[Panevino]

I think I recall St Augustine writing about a shrine that his mother (St Monica) used to visit. In his book "confessions"

 

[Cappadocious]

I think I recall St Augustine writing about a shrine that his mother (St Monica) used to visit. In his book "confessions"

If I recall, one of the charges against the novatianists was their monomaniacal dedication to their martyrs at shrines. A great irony is that, in the 1800's, some claimed that the novatianists were proto-bapists or anabaptists who decried the veneration of saints and relics.

 

[All4Christ]

From Boveglio, Italy...a small mountain village in Tuscany. Many houses have a saint on top of their door like the last photo...perhaps a patron saint?