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Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service

A shelf behind the altar for display of lights vases of flowers etc

A screen or partition wall behind an altar

The step or raised secondary part of an altar a superaltar hence in Italian painting a band or frieze

the sanctuary of a Coptic church It contains the high altar and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain

visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar

An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar as the shoulder of the peace offering See Wave offering

of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts called in architecture a squint

A step or raised shelf as above a sideboard or altar Cf Superaltar and Gradin

member like a step as the raised back of an altar or the like a set raised over another