Hagios Titos church

Hagios Titos is a church in Heraklion, on Crete, though the city's cathedral is Agios Minas. My photographs keep to the iconostasis, that carved wooden screen of icons. In one, a gilded icon of a saint stands behind glass within the carving, and on a glass shelf above it rests a small icon covered in silver, set over embroidered cloth panels worked with angels. In the other, a bearded bishop holds crosses against a gold ground, framed again by the carved wood, with a small silver-framed icon standing on the glass-topped shelf below, placed between two embroidered angel cloths. The gold, the silver and the dark wood come close together in both.

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  Hagios Titos church

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  Hagios Titos church

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  Hagios Titos church