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  2. Orientation of churches - Wikipedia

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    In the middle of the sanctuary was the altar, behind which was the bishop's throne, flanked by the seats of the presbyters, while the laity were on the opposite side. However, even in the East there were churches (for example, in Tyre, Lebanon) that had the entrance at the east end, and the sanctuary at the west end. During the readings all ...

  3. Cathedral floorplan - Wikipedia

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    Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.

  4. File:Side Entrance, Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.jpg

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  5. Meridian Gate - Wikipedia

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    All other officials and servants had to use the four side arches. A series of buildings form the superstructure of the gate. The central one is a pavilion of nine bays wide, with double eaves. On each of the protruding side, a 13 bays-long building with a single eave, connects the two pyramidal-roofed pavilions that represented the que towers.

  6. Narthex - Wikipedia

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    Plan of a Western cathedral, with the narthex in the shaded area at the western end. Floorplan of the Chora Church, showing both inner and outer narthex.. The narthex is an architectural element typical of early Christian and Byzantine basilicas and churches consisting of the entrance or vestibule, located at the west end of the nave, opposite the church's main altar. [1]

  7. Gates of the Temple Mount - Wikipedia

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    The entrance to the gate is impressively decorated. There has the single opening of a semicircular arch with a distinctive 45-degree chamfer and segmental inner arch at the part of the gate that has reached the present time, also the masonry of the wall shows that there are two gates because 1.20 meters of the gate wall reaches to the west side ...

  8. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    An entrance passage or avenue leading to a building, tomb or passageway. Those leading to beehive tombs are enclosed between stone walls and sometimes in-filled between successive uses of the tomb. [34] [35] In ancient Egypt the dromos was a straight, paved avenue flanked by sphinxes. [34] [36] Dutch gable

  9. Lychgate - Wikipedia

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    A lychgate (from Old English līc, corpse) or resurrection gate [1] is a covered gateway found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style churchyard. Examples also exist outside the British Isles in places such as Newfoundland , [ 2 ] the Upland South [ 3 ] and Texas [ 4 ] in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South ...