reredos
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To prepare for the abatement, all open surfaces in the church must be covered, including the pipe organ on the balcony and the high altar, or reredos, which holds the tabernacle.
From Washington Times ● May 13, 2018
Dr. Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere.
From Time Magazine Archive
With its glowing gold, blue, red & black mosaics, its multi-colored marble panels and the ancient ikons on the reredos above its elaborate stone altar, it was a far cry from Manhattan's John Street Church.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a chapel to the right of the choir is a fine modern reredos, and throughout there are many paintings of acceptable, if not great, worth.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
