The icon depicts Our Savior of Smolensk, the iconographic type of Jesus Christ represented as the enthroned Pantocrator, full-figured with his right hand raised in a blessing gesture and his right hand holding an open book of Gospels. He is flanked by the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist and surrounded by two Angels. To either side of Him, kneeling in prayer at His feet, are Saint Sergius of Radonezh and the Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn.