THE PLACE OF CHURCH ART WITHIN THE ORTHODOX WORSHIP AND SPIRITUALITY

The study develops in its first part the idea that the church art and architecture came out and were developed within worship as its constitutive parts. Further the study points out the meanings of art in the Orthodox Church. Firstly, it has an instructive meaning; secondly, the meaning of the church art is to remember or, in other words, it is the history of salvation images memory; thirdly, the church art reveals God to us and finally, the church art and architecture expresses, preaches and protects the doctrine. In the last part of this study, we pointed out the fact that modernistic tendencies of the church art and architecture could be dangerous if we forget that between worship and the two there is a very strong relation/tide and they condition reciprocally.