Citations:heykel


 * 1864, George Ripley, The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, page 700:
 * The service within the heykel or sanctuary is entirely from the Coptic liturgies. No other tongue is allowed before the altar. [...] The ordinary celebration of the eucharist requires 2 or 3 priests within the heykel, [...]


 * 1880, John Murray (firm), A Handbook for Travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt, page 437:
 * [...] and consists of three transeptal aisles, of which that to the E. is separated from the others by carved and highly-coloured wooden screens, and divided by walls of solid masonry into different heykels (chancels), in each of which is an altar. [...] The baptismal font of stone still exists, and in one of the heykels is a very ancient brass candlestick.


 * 1884, Georg Ebers, Egypt: Descriptive, Historical and Picturesque, page 202:
 * He also offers a spoonful to such of the laymen as are near the heykel. Finally, that no particle may be lost of the sacred elements that represent the body and blood of Christ, the priest fills the cup with water, rinses it round, and after pouring it ...


 * 1911, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Oriental Cairo - The City of the Arabian Nights (reprint?: ISBN 9783849672645), page 164:
 * The high-priest, a fine-looking old man, now comes out of the heykel, and walks about among the congregation swinging a censer, and laying his hand on the head of those nearest to him—on ours among others.