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@orthodoxiconography
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926subscribers
-7 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001325121049 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @orthodoxiconography |
| Created | 28 January 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/orthodoxiconography |
Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 19 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 09:58 | 926 | +3 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 20:41 | 923 | -4 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 01:16 | 927 | -5 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 22:05 | 932 | +2 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 06:18 | 930 | +1 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 10:15 | 929 | -2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 05:53 | 931 | -2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 14:02 | 933 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 08:30 | 933 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 29 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Saint John Chrysostom "For he who is praying as he ought, and fasting, has not many wants, and he who has not many wants cannot be covetous; he who is not covetous, will be also more disposed for almsgiving. He who fasts is light, and winged, and prays with wakefulness, and quenches his wicked lusts, and propitiates God, and humbles his soul when lifted up."
Icon of the Theotokos of Porchaev Troparion, Tone V – Those who pray before your holy Icon, O Sovereign Lady, / are granted healing and receive knowledge of the true Faith; / and they repel the attacks of the Hagarenes.* / Therefore, entreat the remission of sins for us who fall down before you, and enlighten our hearts to thoughts of piety; / and offer up supplication to your Son for the salvation of our souls. Ko…
Saint Silouan the Athonite "No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His commandments, for God is not know by science, but by the Holy Spirit. Many philosophers and learned men came to the belief that God exists, but they did not know God. It is one thing to believe that God exists and another to know Him. If someone has come to know God by the Holy Spirit, …
The Transfiguration of Our Lord, Jesus Christ "The light of the Lord’s transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes." – Saint Gregory Palamas
Holy Myrrh-bearer and Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene "See how her love gave her endurance! The disciples left, but she remained standing there, weeping. For her, the sight of the empty tomb was a torment, but she could not tear herself away. Women are the first to preach the Resurrection. The gender that was subjected to sin is the first to taste the joy of the Resurrection. The one who brought the first news …
Saint Maximos the Confessor "Let yourself die while striving, rather than living in laziness. For those who die while trying to keep the commandments are just as much martyrs as those who died for Christ's sake "
Saint Dionysius the Areopagite "Those who do not know must be taught, not punished. We do not hit the blind. We lead them by the hand."
Saint Nilus of Sinai "The body is not evil by nature, but it can become a hindrance to spiritual progress if it is indulged excessively. Therefore, treat your body strictly, giving it only what it needs for health, and concentrate all your care on the soul."
Holy Prophet Ezekiel (6th Century B.C) "If a righteous man, trusting in his own righteousness, were to venture into sin and die in that sin, he would answer for the sin and be subject to judgment; but if a sinner were to repent and die in repentance, his former sin would not be remembered before God." – Ezekiel 3:20; 18:21-24
Saint Columba of Iona "Seek, therefore, supreme knowledge—not through verbal inquiries, but through the perfection of virtuous conduct; not through words, but through a faith that springs from a simple heart and is not the product of reasoning based on irreverent wisdom. For if you seek the ineffable through rational discourse, you will find yourself even further away than before; yet if you seek it with faith, wisd…
Blessed Augustine of Hippo "Consider the world as if it were the sea: a fierce wind, a violent storm. For each of us, our passions are our storm. If you love God, you walk upon the sea; beneath your feet, the turmoil of the world rages. If you love the world, it will swallow you up. It knows how to devour its worshippers, not sustain them. Yet, when the breath of lust stirs your heart, call upon His divinity to over…
Saint Joseph the Hesychast "When you reach the verge of despair while praying and seeking, then the fulfillment of your request is near. Christ wants to heal some hidden passion within you, and this is why He delays in granting your request."
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @orthodoxiconography. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Orthodox Icons” (@orthodoxiconography), 926 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/orthodoxiconography.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.