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A sacristy, also known as a vestry or preparation room, is a room in Christian churches for the keeping of vestments (such as the alb and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels, and parish records. [1] [2] The sacristy is usually located inside the church, but in some cases it is an annex or separate building (as in some ...
A silver cross stolen from a church 30 years ago has been mysteriously returned after it was left on the doorstep of a retired verger. The altar cross was taken in 1994 from the sacristy room of ...
The Church of the Mother of God is the second major building built by the Jesuit missionaries in the Amazon region. [1] Located in the town of Vigia, in the interior of Pará, its initial construction dates back to 1732, when the company was authorized by the Brazilian Empire to establish a college on the site.
The chapel consists of the church, a small sacristy built on the side of the church, and which has a door to the outside, and a small room above the sacristy, which was intended as private quarters for the priest who took charge of the chapel. From the construction materials, including a steel beam, it is evident that the sacristy and the room ...
The church had been the burial place of the Medici family for a century, but at the time there were no spaces available in which to create a new monumental complex: the historic family chapel, the Old Sacristy, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and Donatello, was a composition of sober and measured balance, to which no other decoration could be ...
It would be kept either in the sacristy or in the church itself in a pyx hanging over the altar, an aumbry – a safe in the wall of the church – or in a tabernacle – literally a tent, but in fact a metal safe on or immediately behind the altar itself, sometimes covered with a seasonally coloured cloth. Caskets in the form of a dove or of a ...
The church is composed of the rectangular nave and the square main chapel, which adjusts to the size of the sacristy, built in the upper left angle in the shape of an inverted L. The main facade, erected on the side of the temple (as was common in the conventional female churches), is divided into three sections. [2]
A sacristy was created, An organ was installed, and tribunes were added in the chapels. In 1853, to make room for the Rue de Rivoli, one of the new streets cut through the center of the city by Baron Haussman, the convent of the