altar

IPA: ˈɔɫtɝ

A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
(informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
(figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

Examples of "altar" in Sentences

The main altar is home to the most revered statuette in Jerez.
Above the altar is a portrait of St. Francis de Sales, painted by a fellow convert who became a Visitation sister.
The term "altar call" is an interesting one that has theological complexities that many of us make take for granted.
The word altar (sometimes spelled oltar) is used in the Old Slavonic and Russian languages to denote the entire space surrounding what we know as the altar, which is included behind the iconostasis, and is the equivalent of the Greek word bema.
In this the term _altar_ is alone made use of; but in the first Liturgy of King Edward the Sixth, published in 1549, the altar or table whereupon the Lord’s Supper was ministered is indifferently called _the altar_, _the Lord’s table_, _God’s board_.
Above the altar is the first of a series of six statues of Saints connected to the Benedictine Order (interestingly, and presumably to stress this connection, they all wear the black Benedictine habit, even under the Mass vestments): my patron Saint, St. Gregory the Great.
These souls appeared "under the altar," that is, _at the foot of the altar_, being the same as that described in chap. 8: 3 -- "And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne."