sacellum

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This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

A discovery even more fortunate, in 1857, led Sir Charles Newton to a little sacellum, or family chapel, near Cnidos. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

The other appellation "sacellum," applied by Boece to the hermit's chapel, is a better known and more classical word than the capellula of the Scotichronicon.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John

Splendidum etiam illud sacellum westmonasterij, magno sumptu atque magnificentia ab eodem est conditum.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

No temples in the earliest Rome; meaning of fanum, ara, lucus, sacellum.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde