For an Orthodox Christian, an icon is a sacred image, that is, separated from the realities of everyday life, immovable with everyday life. This window from the world of the high into our world is the world of the lonely, the revelation of God in lines and colors.
In the past, in every Orthodox family - both peasant and urban - in the most prominent place of the home there was necessarily a shelf with icons or a whole home iconostasis. Among the images in it a special place was occupied by the so-called family icon, passed down from generation to generation and uniting all members of the family during a joint prayer.
