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

Such a divine form may yet stand in the adytum of this or that man whom he and the world count an idiot.

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

A garden lies between the pylon and the adytum.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George

The most famous adytum in Greece was in the temple of Apollo at Delphi.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg