ikon
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For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
They descended carefully, a step at a time, for nine floors, like a solemn religious procession bearing aloft a sacred relic or ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
He nearly always carries a relic or a little ikon of some kind, and to this he frequently prays, kissing it at the same time.
From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse
