Iconoclasm (from Greek: εἰκών, eikṓn, 'figure, icon' + κλάω, kláō, 'to break') is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons.

What did the iconoclasts want?

The goal of the iconoclasts was to restore the church to the strict opposition to images in worship that they believed characterized at the least some parts of the early church.

What did the iconoclasts want to destroy?

What did iconoclasts want to destroy? Name the largest most ornate church of the 2nd Golden Age of Byzantium. ... Discuss what effect the Christian church had on art during and after the Byzantine period. The monks spread their religion through the illustrations drawn in the pages of the gospel.