In the Roman Catholic Church, as well as among many Anglican and Lutheran congregations, palm fronds ( or in colder climates some kind of substitutes ) are blessed with an aspergillum outside the church building ( or in cold climates in the narthex when Easter falls early in the year ).

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.

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.

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.

King Radoslav added a splendid narthex to the church in 1235.

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.

In the narthex of a small Orthodox church in Romania, looking through the doorway into the nave and Holy Doors.

Traditionally the narthex was a part of the church building, but was not considered part of the church proper.

In English the narthex is now the porch outside the church at the west end, formerly it was a part of the church itself.

The narthex is thus traditionally a place of penitence, and in Eastern Christianity some penitential services, such as the Little Hours during Holy Week are celebrated there, rather than in the main body of the church.

Some traditions still call this area the narthex as it represents the point of entry into the church, even if everyone is admitted to the nave itself.

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 ).

In some Eastern Orthodox temples ( churches ), the narthex will be referred to as the trapeza ( refectory ), because in ancient times, tables would be set up there after the Divine Liturgy for the faithful to eat a common meal, similar to the agape feast of the early church.

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.

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.

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.

At its eastern end there is a three-sided apse, while an extended narthex faces west ; there are also vestibules on the north and the south.

Traditionally, the narthex is where candles and prosphora will be sold for offering during Divine Services.

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.

In Armenia the local style of narthex is known as a gavit.

It is generally considered to belong to the genus Ferula, probably as an extinct species ( although the currently extant plants Ferula tingitana, Ferula narthex, and Thapsia garganica have historically been suggested as possible identities ).

The entrance porch is the narthex.

The complex is with three naves, apse and narthex of St. Peter's, preceded by a large atrium portico and bordered by a residential building and several other structures used in cemetery functions: a mausoleum, the Sepulchre of Bishop Sabino, a large brick kiln devoted to cooking and a domus, used probably as a bishop's residence.

After Holy Communion, and before the dismissal, the brethren all go in procession to the place where the Washing of Feet is to take place ( it may be in the center of the nave, in the narthex, or a location outside ).

On entering the cathedral the visitor who knows Saint Mark ’ s in Venice, or the churches of Constantinople, will note the absence of a spacious and well lighted outer narthex, comprising all the main entrances ; but this is soon forgotten in view of the fine proportions of the nave, and the marble columns, with capitals of Byzantine type, that support the galleries and other subsidiary parts of the building.

The narthex is now open to the public.

The building lies in the east-west direction and is 70 by 27 m The narthex which is 27 by 13 m bears against the defence walls.

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

Although Eastern Orthodox do not normally bless themselves with holy water upon entering a church like Catholics do, a quantity of holy water is typically kept in a font placed in the narthex ( entrance ) of the church, where it is available for anyone who would like to take some of it home with them.

The lunette above the entrance of the narthex displays the Virgin and Child, St. Anna and St. Joachim, and Christ Blessing.

There is a separate narthex ( entrance area ) in the west.

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.

The temporary narthex, entrance porch and gallery were removed and a screen went up between the completed part of the nave and the extension so that the work of the Cathedral as a place of worship could continue.

Its plan consists of a three-bay narthex ( entrance hall ), a seven-bay nave with a clerestory, narrow aisles, and a chancel with a polygonal apse.

Plan of a Western cathedral, with the narthex in the shaded area at the Liturgical east and west | western end.

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.

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.

Therefore, some may refer to the narthex as being at the western end of the floor plan.

In accordance with his wishes, his ashes are buried near to his memorial in the narthex at Christ Church Spitalfields.

The mosaic in the narthex is of early Byzantine art, a big composition at a size of.

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.

South dome of inner narthex at Chora Church, Istanbul, depicting the ancestors of Christ from Adam onwards.

* The narthex screen on the east wall of the sanctuary at Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts is built of Caen stone.

In some of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge the ante-chapel is carried north and south across the west end of the chapel, constituting a western transept or narthex.