The Ecclesiology of the Church

Vanya asks about Greek Orthodox traditions of placing icons as things to pray to in church and at home. I don't believe that there is any justification for praying to a saint, Tom says. In the East North rocks architecture, where the church is divided into this bit, which represents earth, and that part, which represents heaven, you're looking through the icons into the heavenly realm, he adds. And we see God's beauty when we look at the sun and the mountains and rivers and all the rest of it on an iconastasis, an icon screen - but not idolatry according to Tom.