Sanctuary

In Eastern Christianity, an iconostasis is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a church.

An iconostasis, a partition covered with icons, separates the area around the altar from the nave.

The term can refer to the raised area in a sanctuary.

Synagogues have a place for prayer (the main sanctuary) and may also have rooms for study, a social hall, offices, and classrooms.

Commonly among these churches, altars are placed for permanent use within designated places of communal worship (often called "sanctuaries").

The right of asylum (sometimes called right of political asylum; ) is an ancient juridical concept, under which people persecuted by their own rulers might be protected by another sovereign authority, like a second country or another entity which in medieval times could offer sanctuary.

His mother, Elizabeth Woodville, had sought sanctuary there from Lancastrian supporters who had deposed his father, the Yorkist king Edward IV, during the course of the Wars of the Roses.

Often, such locations either are or become the home of sanctuaries, shrines, places of worship, or locations conducive to meditation.

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.