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church tabernacle

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Also known as tabernacle, sacrament house

locked box in which, in some Christian churches, the Eucharist is stored

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Named after
tabernacle
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Sala di Cesenatico - Tabernacolo del santuario.jpg
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Commons category
Tabernacles
different from
tabernacle
native label
Tabernaculum
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The tabernacle at St Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque, Iowa, placed on the old high altar of the cathedral (cf. General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 315, a)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “church tabernacle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.