Sentence examples for marble altar from inspiring English sources

Alpha Arsano is standing next to the MIT Chapel's marble altar, admiring the view through the domed skylight above.

It may, in fact, be a 17th-century amalgamation of architectural influences, rather than the original structure, but the chandeliers and marble altar are still worth a peek.

The front panel of a sixth century Byzantine marble altar is carved with set of parted curtains, leaving an opening through which relics could be accessed.

Marble floors lead to a bright marble altar that is surrounded by carved motifs of saints, screens of gold leaf and a painting depicting the Resurrection.

A stained glass entryway leads to the chapel, the centerpiece of which is a solid marble altar placed in the center of a circular marble platform.

The cemetery for war dead outside Kobani, on the border with Turkey, has a towering marble altar pavilion, elaborate and decorative, and a massive rotunda is under construction.

The church will also get new carpets, renovated pews and new marble altars.

According to the police report, one or more burglars broke into the chapel sometime before a 9 a.m. service on May 11, smashing through a door with a window and ripping out three tabernacles embedded in 120-year-old marble altars.

"Muslims, come out of your homes!" Hundreds of Islamists poured into the street, torching, looting and smashing the village's two churches and a nearby monastery, lashing out so ferociously that marble altars were left in broken heaps on the floor.

Two marble altars were constructed along with a large kitchen built to feed up to 400 people.

The last of them are then lowered, and a temporary mock-marble cover is placed atop them with a mock-marble altar situated over it.