sacrarium

The sanctuary or sacristy of a church.

Piscina.

In ornithology, the complex sacrum of any bird, consisting of dorsolumbar or lumbosacral and of urosacral vertebræ, as well as of sacrals proper.

In Roman antiquity: Any sacred or consecrated retired place; any place where sacred objects were deposited, as that connected with the Capitoline temple where were kept the processional chariots; sometimes, a locality where a statue of an emperor was placed.

A sort of family chapel in private houses, in which the images of the Penates were kept.

That part of a church where the altar is situated; the sanctuary; the chancel.

A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.

The adytum of a temple.

In a Christian church, the sanctuary.

A place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates)