Sentences with word «narthex»

You used to run into people in the bake shop, the butchers, the candle - stick maker, the church narthex and the women's relief society... So there were plenty of opportunities to discuss all manner of things and to share life, seasons, festivals, deaths... Modern life, suburbia, commuting, everyone working at all hours... has killed much of this face to face life and contact in so many spheres, depending on where you live.

I remember standing in the narthex of the church looking at my friends.

I remember watching him in the narthex.

A narthex has been added and a garden has replaced what had been a dense forest of trees, giving a pleasing sense of openness to the site.

Clearly it wasn't a lobby or narthex, so I wondered if the term meant something more specific in French?

The circle forms in the floor of the narthex symbolize the never - ending connectedness of the Oglala Lakota with God (Wankan - Tanka), nature and one another.

One can see into the sanctuary before one has even entered the narthex.

The church's narthex (the space where visitors first enter, before proceeding to the sanctuary) was designed in response to the congregation's tradition of greeting one another in fellowship before the service.

The only sound is the faint noise of traffic from the urban rush and go just outside the narthex.

The Congregation: Sacred space is different from other space; the inside of the church is different from the narthex (not «gathering space»).

I caught up with Harold Kelly in the narthex of the church following services Sunday.

The floor, representing the earth, is divided into three parts: the entrance or narthex, the place for those who do not yet believe (historically, the place for the catechumens); the nave or sanctuary, where the people of God worship under the observance of their heavenly King; and the sanctuary or altar area, where icons, ecclesial furniture and the altar table represent the things that connect heaven and earth.

He also invited me beyond the narthex into the main church for the next liturgy.

The Greek Church fences its altars with rigor, and non-Orthodox (I am one) are asked to remain in the narthex.

In the narthex...

In the narthex, at the base of a marble column, a lone drunkard snores.