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
In some of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge the ante-chapel is carried north and south across the west end of the chapel, constituting a western transept or narthex.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
