sacellum

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

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew

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

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 other appellation "sacellum," applied by Boece to the hermit's chapel, is a better known and more classical word than the capellula of the Scotichronicon.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John

On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various