Architectural Elements of Churches, Narthex

• Main Author: Grossmann, Peter
• Other Authors: Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988 (editor-in-chief)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Macmillan 1991
• Subjects: Architecture; Arabic language; Byzantine Empire; Cairo (Egypt); Churches; Monasteries; artica
• Online Access: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cce,216

(CE: 194a-226a) [23] Narthex. A narthex is a vestibule of a church, corresponding to the pronaos (porch) of a classical temple. The Greek word means literally "a reedlike plant." In the sixth century, Procopius of Caesarea, evidently for the first time, described the antechamber of a churc...