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What is a naos?

What is a naos? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (architecture) The inner part of a Greek temple; it contained a statue of the appropriate deity surrounded by a colonnaded portico; it gave rise to the Roman cella
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Several steps led to the anteroom, supported by Ionic columns, which adjoined the naos.
It consists of atrium, narthex, naos with three nephs and apse. It is a typical Byzantine structure with its material and architecture.
At other times all these objects were deposited in the naos.
Luke has Zechariah ministering not merely at the hieron, the temple complex, but in the naos, the inner sanctuary of the temple restricted to the priests.
Small objects bearing Harbor masks, for example, are divided into loop sistra, naos sistra, Hathor masks, and Harbor mask columns.
The cella or naos was built to enshrine the chryselephantine statue of Athena by Pheidias.

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