🔤 Chantries ✨

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chantries, dua gahein, qadeem girja ghar, dua ke kamray, ebaadat gahein

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chantries

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DEFINITION

chapels, altars, or endowed foundations established for chanting prayers for founders

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Wealthy medieval patrons funded decorative chantries within cathedrals to ensure perpetual daily prayers. Tourists explored the restored stone chantries located along the side aisles of the cathedral today. Historical records detail the land grants used to maintain these chantries during the Middle Ages. Art historians admired the elaborate Gothic stone carvings adorning the historic family chantries. Many chantries were dissolved and converted during legal religious reforms in sixteenth century England.

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endowed chapels private chapels prayer chapels side altars memorial chapels