adytum

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

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 Inazo Nitobe

Jurgen lifted Anaïtis from the altar, and they went into the chancel and searched for the adytum.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

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 James Oliver Curwood

It is not the ever-victorious and successful that we take into the adyta of our hearts.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

The shrines are "Harim," or sacred, having adyta which are kept secret from the prying eyes of men, and, therefore, should be served by eunuchs.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

And sometimes a dreadful voice issuing from the adyta has destroyed them*.

From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor

The adyta, or innermost parts of temples, were accessible only to priests.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Curtis C. Bushnell

The magic rod of fanaticism is preserved in the very adyta of human nature; and needs only the re-exciting warmth of a master hand to bud forth afresh and produce the old fruits.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge