reredos

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To prepare for the abatement, all open surfaces in the church must be covered, including the pipe organ on the balcony and the high altar, or reredos, which holds the tabernacle.

From Washington Times • May 13, 2018

With its glowing gold, blue, red & black mosaics, its multi-colored marble panels and the ancient ikons on the reredos above its elaborate stone altar, it was a far cry from Manhattan's John Street Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The great reredos at Winchester does not sing in greater ecstasy than the marble symphony which he has built in the chancel of St. Thomas's."

From Time Magazine Archive

He blends piety and passion in the most mystically amorous fashion; with the cantando expressivo in D, begins some lovely music, secular in spirit, mayhap intended by its creator for reredos and pyx.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James