What is "chapels"

Usage examples of "chapels".

They watched for a long time, studying the arrangement of pillars and side chapels and occasional funeral effigies along the clerestory aisle.

They must penetrate beyond the nave altar, with its revealing candles and exposed approach and its side chapels potentially housing hostile monks.

The chapels on the left were empty-they could see that already-their recesses dimly lit by Presence lamps and the banks of vigil candles guarding the nave altar itself.

Beyond that stretched the rest of the nave, with more side chapels, and the choir looming in the transept crossing.

They crossed the second chapel, venturing as close to the rood screen as they dared, to peer up the rest of the nave and scan the north chapels before venturing further into the open for the breaching of the screen itself.

Silently, Joram willed the man to move into one of the first side chapels-he had to choose one of the first side chapels, or Rhys would be discovered.

Rhys had crept silently to the wall common to the two chapels and was peering around the edge when Joram looked out.

In the later chapels of the greater monasteries the image was rarely alone and stood against the far wall above the altar.

Where chapels and assembly-rooms were on an upper foor the lighting was provided by windows.

The larger teaching monastery contained not only a central temple and assembly-hall but also, with the surrounding residential quarters, colleges with their own chapels, forming a number of separate economic units with considerable autonomy and their own administration.

The pilgrim, still following a clockwise progression, ascended from one terrace to the next, on each of which were chapels containing images and wall-paintings, the whole culminating in a shrine at the top.

One of these, the stepped stupa-temple at Gyantse, the famous sKu-'bum, consisted of 73 chapels said to contain 27,529 painted images.

Of course there were many other temples and chapels even in Marduk's temple, but still, for the King to fall crazy in love with another god?

I could creep in my fine jeweled slippers into the chapels where the other gods were - Nabu and Ishtar and any god or goddess who had been brought from another city for sanctuary.

And so from all over Babylonia , frightened priests were sending their gods to us for protection, to the great gateway, and we had set up these visiting deities in chapels and these chapels were full of twinkling light.