high altar
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As a viewer marches down the nave toward the high altar, the apostles also come into view, on a trompe l’oeil ledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
It was found months later, 500 miles away, at the high altar of Arbroath Abbey.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2022
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba laid a small box containing Tutu’s remains to rest in the floor in front of the high altar at St George’s Cathedral.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2022
On September 14, 2001, speaking from the high altar of the National Cathedral, in Washington, D.C.,
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2019
Upon the high altar stood a golden monstrance in the shape of a sunburst, at the center of which—exposed through a tiny window— was the round wafer of bread.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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