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    The diaconicon (Greek: διακονικόν, romanized: diakonikon; Slavonic: diakonik) is, in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, the name given to...
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    work ensued between 1976-1984, when a new mosaic was discovered in the diaconicon-baptistery. By 1984 the consolidation work was completed, and as a result...
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    the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition, the south apse is known as the diaconicon and the north apse as the prothesis. Various ecclesiastical features of...
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    place in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches. Prothesis and diaconicon are collectively referred to as pastophoria. The prothesis is located...
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    Eastern Christianity, the functions of the sacristy are fulfilled by the Diaconicon and the Prothesis, two rooms or areas adjacent to the Holy Table (altar)...
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    [citation needed]. The apse is flanked by two chapels, the prothesis and the diaconicon, typical for Byzantine architecture. Inside, the intrados of the great...
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  • Christian and Eastern Christian church building used as sacristies—the diaconicon and the prothesis. Originally, in the Greek Old Testament the term "pastophorion"...
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    Churches the piscina is called a thalassidion, and is located in the diaconicon (sacristy). The thalassidion is a sink that drains into an honourable...
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    is linked by short passage to the bema; the southern dome is over the diaconicon, which is reached via the parecclesion. Only three mosaics survive in...
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    present) for a blessing. The censers, charcoal and incense are kept in the diaconicon (sacristy) Entrance with the censer at Great Vespers. The censer is used...
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