Sacellum

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  • n. A small chapel, as a monument within a church
  • n. A shrine open to the sky, sometimes used for sacrificial purposes, or in honor of the divine
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity.
  • n. A small monumental chapel in a church.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Roman antiquity, a small inclosed space without a roof, consecrated to some deity, containing an altar, and sometimes also a statue of the god.
    • Word Usage
    "In that case, the open front and the niche in the back wall could suggest that one is dealing here with a kind of sacellum (or shrine) dedicated to the cult of Marcus Aurelius, to whom the whole complex was dedicated."
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