narthex

Example Sentences

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Instead, on Sundays, he worshipped in the narthex at the back of Camden First United Methodist Church, separated from the rest of the congregation, with his family at his side in folding chairs.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2022

The entrance, which is also framed by the same angles of the tower shapes, feels both grand and humanly scaled, and functions a bit like the narthex of a cathedral.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2019

When the narthex was expanded last year to accommodate a new elevator, the church commissioned an artist to replicate the original light fixtures.

From Washington Times • Mar. 13, 2016

Their women, some dressed in full black chador, mouthed prayers from the shadows of the narthex.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2013

In some of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge the ante-chapel is carried north and south across the west end of the chapel, constituting a western transept or narthex.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various