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

They never alluded to their affluent neighbor, never suffered gossip concerning the Boones in what Olympia humorously called the "Orphic adytum," the "tabby-shop," as Wesley named the Perley parlors.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

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

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