The main body of the building, making the longer arm of the cross, is called the nave, and is where worshippers congregate, The term is from the Latin word for ship.

A section of the main body of a Gothic church usually shows the nave as considerably taller than it is wide.

One of its main modern points of interest is the aluminium figure of Christ in Majesty ( 1954-5 ), by Jacob Epstein, which is suspended above the nave.

The interior has a single nave: the main attraction is the History of the True Cross fresco ( 1453 – 1464 ) cycle by Piero della Francesca in the Bacci Chapel.

The main body of the church, the nave, is thought on the evidence of the measurements and wall thickness to be Norman in origin.

The main nave windows are 14th century, and one near the pulpit is Tudor.

This can be played either from a mobile console in the nave or from the main console.

It was constructed in the Romanesque style with twin aisles either side of the nave and a single tower at the west end, aligned with the main axis of the church.

The main body of the church comprised a nave with two aisles, transepts and a choir.

Its enormous main waiting room, inspired by the Roman Baths of Caracalla, approximated the scale of St. Peter's nave in Rome, expressed here in a steel framework clad in plaster that imitated the lower wall portions of travertine.

The nave is the main body of the church where most of the worshippers stand, and the sanctuary is the area around the altar, east of the nave.

A wooden ship replica is in the main nave.

The main nave of the church has one of the few examples of Moorish art in the Americas.

Image: Washington National Cathedral crucifix above main altar. JPG | The rood in the chancel arch separating the nave from the choir

From its first building period ( 1147 until the first decades of the 13th century ), Lisbon cathedral has preserved the West façade with a rose window ( rebuilt from fragments in the 20th century ), the main portal, the North lateral portal and the nave of the cathedral.

In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church.

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.

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 church was enlarged by a south aisle, and arches were formed in the nave and south transept walls linking the new aisle to the main body of the church.

*# St. Bartholomew's parish church with Manneristic, magnificent, architectural tombstone of Stanisław Przyjemski on the north wall of the main nave seems to be the most characteristic example of local Mannerism.

Wall crucifix above the entrance to the porch on the north wall of the main nave.

The main piers and transverse arches that support the domes divide the nave into three compartments, each 60 sqft ( 5. 58m2 ).

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.

The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

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The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

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Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.

Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.

The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.

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The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.

The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.