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- arcade, colonnade, screen, or rail, and an external closed space, the exonarthex (outer narthex), a court in front of the church facade delimited on all...
- narthex. It divides north–south into the outer, or exonarthex and the inner, or esonarthex. The exonarthex (or outer narthex) is the first part of the church...
- George. The original entrance above the Church of Saint George, now in the exonarthex, bears the inscription: I, Voivode Stephen, by the Grace of God Ruler...
- kathedra (episcopal throne), or both an esonarthex (inner-narthex) and exonarthex (outer narthex), used for special services such as the Paschal vigil or...
- the naos have not survived except three panels, the decoration of the exonarthex and the esonarthex constitute the most important full-scale mosaic cycle...
- architecture, the temple antechamber is more commonly referred to as an exonarthex. In early Christian architecture, the vestibule replaced the more extravagant...
- alternate courses of brick and stone. At the end of the 14th century an exonarthex was added with double arcades, but these were blinded in the 16th century...
- as snake patterns. Besides this building, the complex contains also an exonarthex to the west, a portico (which joins a parekklesion with the bema) with...
- Augusteion, from which they eventually retreated and took up positions in the exonarthex of Hagia Sophia itself. At this point, "the patriarch was anxious lest...
- Temple, b) the chapel of St Barbara on the northern side; and c) the exonarthex with the propylon to the west. The larger of the two churches, the south...