The bema and the two lateral chapels have cross-groined vaults.
Twice I went to the bema and spoke to those priests and that mangy rabble.
In Greece the bema was the general name of any raised platform.
To accommodate the people and to enjoy the repose of midday, Roman governors, Suetonius tells us, mounted the bema at sunrise.
Still it rejoiced him to hear the noble truths of democracy delivered as it were from the bema.
Another Kandian peculiarity was a kind of marriage called bema, in which the husband lived at his wifes house.
In the chord of the bema stood the holy table with its ciborium or canopy of gold.
His friends and relatives tried in vain to stop him making himself ridiculous and being dragged down from the bema.
The bema, on which he sat to administer justice, was probably the golden throne of Archelaus.
The two smaller compartments and apses at the sides of the bema were sacristies, the diaconicon and prothesis.
