Great Entrance

noun

, Eastern Church.

the solemn procession in which the unconsecrated Eucharistic elements are carried from the prothesis through the nave of the church and into the bema.

The custodian's booth was closed, but there was a small gate in the great entrance and we walked in.

It is an imposing church of red stone, the great entrance being flanked by low, square-topped towers.

Arriving at the great entrance, you almost seem as if you were about to enter a fairy castle.

The great entrance on the west was completed in the fifteenth century.

"Alabaster, all alabaster," said Nabul, laying his hand on the stone work near the great entrance.

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