ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NARTHEX
Via Latin from Medieval Greek: enclosed porch, enclosure (earlier: box), from Greek narthēx giant fennel, the stems of which were used to make boxes.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NARTHEX»
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Neil Foster is 33-year-old minor league baseball umpire who is comparing what he was taught as a child in the Lutheran Church with what he has learned as an adult, such as how to rationalize dating 18-year-old Sara Miles, who is still in ...
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Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, ...
Burials in the narthex are attested archaeologically, textually, and in church
decoration.111 The performance of funerary and commemorative ceremonies in
the narthex or exonarthex is attested in monastic typika and in euchologia. The
Last ...
Sharon E. J. Gerstel, 2006
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The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul
A. H. S. Megaw noted in his excavation report that the outer bays of the narthex
did not originally have portals in their west walls, but instead contained arcosolia
for tombs.''1 The northern arcosolium was destroyed shortly after its construction
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Robert G. Ousterhout, 1987
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
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The Ministry of Liturgical Environment
The- narthex (entrance or gathering space) is considered a liturgical space.
Usually there are doors delineating the narthex from the nave (the main body of
the church building) and, because of these doors, we might not even think of the
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Joyce Ann Zimmerman, 2004
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The Tempietto del Clitunno near Spoleto
All parts of the Tempietto's west front up to the horizontal cornice are clearly prior
to the masonry in the narthex walls and vault, and hence, must belong to the
Narthex-Portico system. The builders of this system laid the parapet blocks on the
...
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A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation ...
Rom. Mart.); also written Natalus and Narz ilis (Usuard. Mart, and Var. Lect.). [ 1
NARTHEX (vdpent, wpovios, a)i\l>v, (qy. aJ>A7J) by Paul the Silentiary; eroa by
Hexychius ; Puradius.) (1) The word first of all means the plant called giant-fennel
, ...
Sir William Smith, Samuel Cheetham, 1880
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Byzantine Architecture Illustrated by Examples of Edifices ...
63 église, qu'on appelle le Garçonostase, fut détruit par un incendie, ainsi que
deux couvents voisins de l'église de Sainte-Irène, et une partie du narthex de
cette église.” La plupart des églises n'ont pas seulement un narthex, mais on en ...
Richard Popplewell Pullan, 1864
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Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople: ...
Usually, the narthex was as wide as the naos and communicated with it through
one, two, or three openings. One or three doors opened from the narthex to the
exterior or to an outer narthex or ambulatory.The narthex could extend beyond
the ...
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Mosaici Di Santa Maria Dell'Ammiraglio a Palermo
attempt to reconstruct part of its enclosure during the comprehensive restoration
of the church in the 1870s.67 Patricolo was responsible for substantial
reconstruction of the south and north walls of the narthex. He also established the
precise ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NARTHEX»
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100 years of Immanuel Lutheran Church
... on the nave walls and Philippine mahogany in the narthex on Sunday, March 24, 1968. the Chancel furniture and appointments were oak. «Merrillfotonews, Jul 15»
Canadian Anglican cathedral exhibit extends truth and reconciliation …
... plaque in the cathedral's narthex. “Suddenly he got very excited and yelled, 'That's my grandfather!' ” said Mallett. The grandfather? The Rev. «Anglicannews, Jul 15»
Broomfield Enterprise In the Pews July 19
Donations can be dropped off at the yellow school bus in the narthex. For information on needed items, call 303-466-4823. Evening services at ... «Broomfield Enterprise, Jul 15»
Church Briefs
During Van Buren's ministry, the church added the wings and extended the narthex, and the number of families increased to 425. «HollandSentinel.com, Jul 15»
Pillars of the Earth
The other day there popped into my head for no apparent reason the word “narthex.” At first it sounded like (but seemed unlikely to be) a ... «The Daily News of Newburyport, Jul 15»
Louis L. (Luke) Funk
Calling will be held in the narthex at St. Pius X Church (7200 Sarto Drive, Indianapolis, IN). Calling will be on Sunday afternoon, July 12th from ... «Indianapolis Star, Jul 15»
Massive sale will bid goodbye to All Saints' Episcopal Church in …
One of All Saints' three grandfather clocks chimes in the narthex, or lobby. A second one went to an Episcopal church in Carthage, Mo. «Kansas City Star, Jul 15»
Photographs on display at Fostoria gallery
The gallery is located at 1200 Van Buren St., Fostoria, in the narthex of Wesley United Methodist Church, and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ... «The Courier, Jul 15»
Centennial Renewal at St. Lawrence O'Toole Is Spiritual and Physical
They opened up space by relocating the confessionals in the narthex to a new wing built off the side. The new wing connects the church to the ... «Catholic New York, Jul 15»
The Wedding
I removed myself into the narthex, looked in every direction, whipped that sucker right off and casually walked back into the sanctuary with the ... «BlogHer, Jul 15»
