ICONOSTASIS
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Language: English / USA
Take a moment to admire an architectural feature that has no equal in the world: the extraordinary gilded wooden screen in front of the altar, known as iconostasis. These are usually flat, but here it takes the form of a triumphal arch composed of elaborate sculptures and embellished with the splendid portal "of the tsar".