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)

No gold or silver glitters in the modern adytum, or editor's room, and the tripod from which we distribute our afflatus to the compositors is a wooden three-legged stool, unpainted and uncushioned.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

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