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DIACONICON

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 146 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIACONICON , in the See also:

Greek See also:Church, the name given to a chamber on the See also:south See also:side of the central See also:apse, where the sacred utensils, vessels, &c., of the church were kept. In the reign of See also:Justin II. (565-574), owing to a See also:change in the See also:liturgy, the diaconicon and protheses were located in apses at the See also:east end of the aisles. Before that See also:time there was only one apse. In the churches in central See also:Syria of slightly earlier date, the diaconicon is rectangular, the side apses at See also:Kalat-Seman having been added at a later date.

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