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

The most famous adytum in Greece was in the temple of Apollo at Delphi.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

On the contrary, it believes in the innate goodness and God-like purity of the human soul, adoring it as the adytum from which divine oracles are proclaimed.

From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Nitobe, Inazo

Out of the adytum echoed a cry of anguish, the lament of the Mother of Wisdom at her children’s deathly ignorance, which plucks them down from the Mount of the Beautiful Vision.

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns