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==Souvenir icon for Holy Land pilgrims==
Large icons painted on canvas and sold as souvenirs to Orthodox Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land.<ref name=Immerzeel>{{cite book |last= Immerzeel |first= Mat |title= Souvenirs of the Holy Land. The Production of Proskynetaria in Jerusalem |page= 40 |work= International Conference: Visual Constructs of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, November 14 - 20, 2010: Abstracts Booklet |url= http://www.spectrum.huji.ac.il/PDF/Visual%20Constrtucts%20abstracts.pdf |access-date= 24 February 2021}}</ref> They depicted a topographic overview of Christian holy sites, with the [[Old city, Jerusalem|walled city of Jerusalem]] and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre placed at the centre.<ref name=Immerzeel/> They represent the most visually attractive genre of the flourishing local icon industry from the late Ottoman period, 19th-century artists from Palestine dominating the pilgrim souvenir production also in [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]].<ref name=Immerzeel/> Possibly first created in the second half of the 17th century, the oldest specimen preserved among the several hundred surviving examples is from 1704.<ref name=Immerzeel/> In the first half of the 19th century the pattern changed, replacing the topographic depiction with a patchwork of icons, still centred around the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the [[Holy Fire]] ceremony, but surrounded by scenes from the [[Life of Jesus in the New Testament|life of Christ]] and the [[Akathistos Hymn]] of the [[Theotokos]].<ref name=Immerzeel/> Cheap prints rang death knell of the painted proskynetaria by the end the 19th century.<ref name=Immerzeel/>