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Sign in to savethumb|300px|Red banner embroidered with an icon of a saint ([[Church of St. Gabriel, Nazareth).]] Khorugv (, , , , , , , sometimes translated as gonfalon) is a religious banner used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
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thumb|300px|Red banner embroidered with an icon of a saint ([[Church of St. Gabriel, Nazareth).]] Khorugv (, , , , , , , sometimes translated as gonfalon) is a religious banner used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
The khorugv or banner consists of an icon of Christ, the Theotokos or a saint, either painted or embroidered on a rectangular piece of cloth. The cloth is often pointed or swallow-tailed, or has several streamers coming down from it. The banner often has two or three tails on it, each terminating in a tassel, and may be fringed around the edges. It is suspended from a crossbar which is attached horizontally to a long vertical pole (see the article Gonfalon for a picture). The finial at the top of the pole is usually a cross. More rarely, banners can also be made of metalwork, or carved out of wood.