sacellum

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Splendidum etiam illud sacellum westmonasterij, magno sumptu atque magnificentia ab eodem est conditum.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

A discovery even more fortunate, in 1857, led Sir Charles Newton to a little sacellum, or family chapel, near Cnidos. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

No temples in the earliest Rome; meaning of fanum, ara, lucus, sacellum.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

These two appellations we have already found in the preceding quotations to be capellula and sacellum.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John

The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew