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

Engineers discovered cracks in a 14-square-foot section of tiling in the doorway between the entrance and the narthex.

From Washington Times • Mar. 13, 2016

The church’s documents had been kept in a narthex cloakroom for years, but were recently moved into a locked fireproof file cabinet.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2014

The first, it is true, has no western apse, but this is atoned for by a fine narthex, and in the other two the western extension is as conspicuous as the eastern.

From Architecture by Bell, Nancy R E Meugens