ICONIUM

ancient city, Asia Minor, situated on plateau on slopes of Taurus Mts. Capital of Lycaonia under Romans. Walls of modern city ( Konieh or Konia) built from materials taken from buildings of I. Contains famous monastery of dancing dervishes, ruins of mosques and tombs; manufacture carpets and colored leather. Pop. c. 45,000. ICONOCLASTS.—A breaker or deStroyer of images. In the primitive Church there was a general feeling against the use of art in Christian worship. This was owing partly te the idolatry which accompanied heathen worship. That they, like the Jews, had no images in their churches amazed their heathern neighbors. From the IV. cent. paintings and sculptures were emBoye in Christian worship. Only then e symbol of the cro came into use, and there was strong prejudice against a crucfix. The famous zconoclastic controversy arose in the Eastern Empire in the VIII, cent. The attack on images was begun by Leo III., d. 740; it was con Empre Irene restored them; another iconoclastic reaction took place, but came to an end with the Emperor Theohilus, d. 826. The later Church did not eup the position of the extreme I’s that were themselves po e ed of sacramental power, neither did it reject them altogether. In the Hastern Church icons like flat pictures are used, whereas the Catholic Church in the West has always believed in images, crucifixes, etc., as Means of instruction. graphein, to describe), writing about engravings; history of Christian relics or pictures. _ Stasis, standing), division In Gk. churches between outer choir and inner sanctuary; saints, etc.