At the west end of the nave are two projecting towers, with a narthex ( entrance ) between them.

A two bay narthex at the western end opens into a seven bay nave leading to the crossing, from which wide transepts extend three bays each to north and south.

In traditional Byzantine architecture, the narthex is divided into two distinct structures: an esonarthex ( inner narthex ), between the outer porch and the body of the church proper separated from the nave and aisles by a wall, arcade, colonnade, or screen ; and an exonarthex ( outer narthex ) outside the main façade of the church, usually part of a colonnaded or arcaded atrium or quadriporticus ( quadrangle ).

The sober interior has a nave and two aisles divided by robust pilasters, with an inner narthex.

It consists of a narthex and two parallel naves, the older one cut into the rock on the south side of the hill, and an arcade of rounded Romanesque arches resting on columns, creating openings to the rock cemetery.

In the narthex of the sanctuary of the church is a stained glass window honor which features, among other highlights of Patton's career, a picture of him riding in a tank.

Most of the decorative elements have Christian symbolism, in reference to the church's Episcopalian roots, but the cathedral is filled with memorials to persons or events of national significance: statues of Washington and Lincoln, state seals embedded in the marble floor of the narthex, state flags that hang along the nave, stained glass commemorating events like the Lewis and Clark expedition and the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima.

Thirty-five stained glass windows add colorful inspiration to the buildings on the property: seventeen in the main church, eight in the parish hall, six in the chapel, four in the narthex and a domed ceiling in the chancel.

Reinstated in the completed Cathedral, the panes remain the focal point of the glass screen between the narthex and the Cathedral nave.

Within the first half of the 13th century the narthex and the new façade were constructed, most of the mosaics were completed and the domes were covered with higher wooden, lead-covered domes in order to blend in with the Gothic architecture of the redesigned Doge's Palace.

The church has three main parts: a narthex, an exonarthex separated by colonnades and an atrium constructed mostly of marble.

An altar server will usually take it from him when he enters the narthex and return it to him when he leaves at the end of the service.

The frescoes in Radoslav's narthex and the pareclesions originate from the 1230s and display a close relation to the painting style of the main church.

The nave of a church, whether Romanesque, Gothic or Classical, extends from the entry — which may have a separate vestibule, the narthex — to the chancel and is flanked by lower aisles separated from the nave by an arcade.

The narthex of a church is the entrance or lobby area, located at the end of the nave, at the far end from the church's main altar.

The word comes from narthex ( Medieval Latin from Classical Greek narthex νάρθηξ 1. giant fennel, 2. scourge ) and was the place for penitents.

Later reforms removed the requirement to exclude people from services who were not full members of the congregation, which in some traditions obviated the narthex.

The doorway leading from the narthex to the nave is sometimes referred to as the " Royal Doors ", because in major cathedrals ( catholica ) there were several sets of doors leading into the nave, the central one being reserved only for the use of the Emperor.

The narthex of the church depicts the life of King Louis IX of France, namesake of the city and church, the rear dome includes mosaics of significant archdiocesan events, while the main dome by Jan Henryk de Rosen depicts Biblical scenes from both the Old Testament and New Testament.

In the 1990s the office was built into the narthex by David Brand using timber from the pews removed from the rear of the church.

So many pilgrims were attracted to Gellone that his corpse was exhumed from the modest site in the narthex and given a more prominent place under the choir, to the intense dissatisfaction of the Abbey of Aniane.

When the Cathedral was completed in the 1990s, the panes were removed from the temporary narthex and stored.

In 2011, after being named one of 25 Twin City finalists, the building was the recipient of a $ 100, 000 preservation grant from Partners in Preservation, chosen through a public vote ; the funds were used to repair the narthex and sacristy of the Basilica, and help restore the paint and gold leaf found throughout the structure.

In 1984 a narthex was added on the west end of the nave to protect the church from street noise, and at the same time, a cloistered walk was built from the education building and the bell tower.

At the Parliamentary end of the Cathedral, at the rear of the nave, a temporary narthex ( foyer ) and entrance porch were built, along with a gallery over the narthex, extending into the nave.

Of the abbey church consecrated by John XIX in 1024, little can be seen in the interior except the mosaics in the narthex and over the triumphal arch, the medieval structures having been covered or destroyed during the " restorations " of various abbots in commendam.

Prior to the center being built, visitors to the Capitol had to queue on the parking lot and ascend the stairs, whereupon entry was made through the massive sculpted Columbus Doors, through a small narthex cramped with security, and thence directly into the Rotunda.

In the 20th century a Neo-Classical narthex was added to the façade, changing abruptly its appearance.

The recumbent lions guarding the entrance are replacements of the originals, now in the narthex of the church.

The church consists of a vast nave of eleven bays, entered by a narthex, with a transept and short apsidal choir.

They indicate that the original church consisted of a nave, possibly with a narthex, and side-chapels to the north and south.

From the beginning it was intended that these towers flank a central porch of some sort and a narthex.

The church is entered through a porch and into a narthex on the south west corner of the building.

Some of the money was spent on restoring and decorating the church of the Chora monastery in the northwest of Constantinople, where Metochites ’ donor portrait can still be seen in a famous mosaic in the narthex, above the entrance to the nave.

The corridors functioned as internal parvises ; the western corridor, adorned with a unique flat caissoned ceiling, doubled as the narthex.

This statue, which appears to show a Lanier older than the 39 years he actually lived, is situated on the right side of the portico leading into the Chapel narthex.

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The crush of pilgrims was such that an extended narthex ( an enclosed porch ) was built, inaugurated by Pope Innocent II in 1132 to help accommodate the pilgrim throng.

The Beautiful Gates are sometimes called the Royal Doors, but that name more properly belongs to the central doors connecting the narthex, or porch, to the nave.

All Saint's has been recently reordered ( 2000 ) to include a narthex, in which is held a coffee Morning on Friday mornings.

Galilei's front, which is a screen across the older front creating a narthex or vestibule, does express the nave and double aisles of the basilica, which required a central bay wider than the rest of the sequence ; Galilei provided it, without abandoning the range of identical arch-headed openings, by extending the central window by flanking columns that support the arch, in the familiar Serlian motif.

In the lower register of the façade five round-arched portals, enveloped by polychrome marble columns, open into the narthex through bronze-fashioned doors.

Image: Aachen-Pine cone. jpg | Bronze pinecone in the cathedral narthex

In the last few years, the cathedral's esplanade and narthex have undergone significant reconstruction.