The place and religious culture icons in ukrainian immigrants at Curitiba

Abstract

This article comprises the place as a participant of the Byzantine iconographic art. The place is not only a given geographical neutral, because conditions the way of thinking and writing icons. The Slavic Byzantine icons have a history and is part of the historian's craft go in search of evidence of his birth to, in a second step, to understand how they are assimilated in the spaces they occupy. Therefore, this article takes as a reference the Bigorrilho district of Curitiba-PR, where is a part of the Ukrainian community that brought from immigration, the way of relating to the sacred through Byzantine icons; takes as a theoretical framework for their analysis the thoughts of theologian and historian Slavic Leonid Uspenski.