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LITURGY Before the beginning of the in the Chalice , covers the diskos and the chalice with Veil s, and Censes them (see F. E. Brightman , ''Liturgies Eastern and Western'', 1896). ARCHITECTURE The Prothesis is also the term, architecturally, for the place in which this ceremony takes place. This is a small table, also known as the '''Table of Oblation''', which can be placed in the north side of the Sanctuary or in a separate chamber (also called the ''Prothesis'') on the north side of the central Apse . In other usage, the ''Altar of Prothesis'' is a name given by the Greeks to a small, preparatory kind of Altar , whereon the Bread is blessed before it is carried to a large altar, where the solemn Preparation Of The Eucharist is performed. During the reign of Justin II ( 565 - 574 ), this chamber was located in an apse, and another apse was added on the south side for the Diaconicon , so that from his time the Greek church was triapsal. In the churches in central Syria, the ritual was apparently not the same, as both prothesis and diaconica are generally rectangular, and the former, according to De Vogue , constituted a chamber for the deposit of offerings by the faithful. Consequently it is sometimes placed on the south side, if when so placed it was more accessible to the pilgrims. There is always a much wider doorway to the prothesis than to the diaconicon, and there are cases where a side doorway from the central apse leads direct to the diaconicon, but never to the prothesis. EXTERNAL LINKS
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