templon

On this architrave or crossbeam large disks or shields were placed containing the pictures of the saints, and this arrangement was called templon (templum), either from its fancied resemblance to the front of the old temples or as expressing the Christian idea of the shrine where God was worshipped.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

These included fine marble relief panels, some of them broken, from the old templon.

A Sacred Congregation 1998

This area consisted of a broad middle section, or nave, with one or two aisles on either side, and a semicircular apse, where an altar was set up behind a low chancel screen known as the templon.

A Sacred Congregation 1998

Gordio metis en la templon la veturilon mem sur kiu li tien veturis, antaux ol li komencis regi kiel la nova regxo.

A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

La dioj respondis, "Kiu ajn venos unue en nian sanktan templon hodiaux, por fari oferojn, estos via regxo."

A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

Every church of the Byzantine Rite eventually imitated the "great" church and so this open templon form of iconostasis began to be adopted among the churches of the East, and the name itself was used to designate what is now the iconostasis.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913