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

Nobody was admitted here, except the initiates of the mysteries of the adytum.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

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

The reader who desires to know more about this oracular divinity, may consult the said doctor Alcofribas Nasier, who will usher him into the adytum through the medium of the high priestess Bacbuc.

From Maid Marian by Peacock, Thomas Love