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

Here, Philip thought, was the adytum of no ordinary man; it was the study of a scholar and a scientist.

From God's Country—And the Woman by Curwood, James Oliver

Such a divine form may yet stand in the adytum of this or that man whom he and the world count an idiot.

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

The square itself is perhaps the ground plan of a temple, or adytum of a temple.

From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James