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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

cella , the portion of a Roman temple that was enclosed within walls, as distinct from the open colonnaded porticoes that formed the rest of it. It corresponds to the naos in Greek temples. The cella housed the statue of the deity to whom the temple was dedicated and was also used as a treasury. Sometimes it extended the whole width of the building, instead of being kept entirely within free-standing colonnades. The cella was generally a single chamber, but there were sometimes two chambers, or even three, as in the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.

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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

cella (pl. cellae).
1. Cell, in the sense of a monastic study-bedroom.

2. Enclosed part of a Greek or Roman temple including the sacred chamber and vestibule, in fact everything within the walls. In Greek, naos.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

cella (also cella coemeterialis). A small chapel erected in cemeteries in early Christian times.
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