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

I must find him: I must continue my lessons: I must lead him into the adytum of Wisdom.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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)