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

She had not learned to love him in the vestibule of society, that court of the Gentiles, but in the chamber of torture and the clouded adytum of her own spiritual temple.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George

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

Through a narrow alley, between piles of books, I reached a cell, or adytum, whose sides were so completely cased with the same supellex that the fireplace was literally enchâsse dans la muraille.

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)