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

It is, therefore, an adytum and occasions shame.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

She had not learned to love him in the vestibule of society, that court of the Gentiles, but in the chamber of torture and the clouded adytum of her own spiritual temple.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George

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