adytum

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Later that night, I peeked into the center’s adytum, a dark and lovely stone chapel whose altar glowed with candlelight.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2011

The crypt of adytum, used by priests for unknown rituals, was about 12 by 13 feet, roughly built, its floor stuccoed.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now it appeared that thus far I had never been admitted to the adytum.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

He contends the original level to be that of his office, which lies on the right of the adytum.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Disposed, as he was, to hold, that whatever had been in Greece, was right; he was more than doubtful of the propriety of throwing open the classical adytum to the illiterate profane.

From Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love