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Facade of the Metropolitan Sacristy, Mexico City, by Lorenzo Rodriguez, 1749–68.
Facade of the Metropolitan Sacristy, Mexico City, by Lorenzo Rodriguez, 1749–68.

Sacristy

architecture
Also known as: vestry
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Sacristy, in architecture, room in a Christian church in which vestments and sacred objects used in the services are stored and in which the clergy and sometimes the altar boys and the choir members put on their robes. In the early Christian church, two rooms beside the apse, the diaconicon and the prothesis, were used for these purposes. The specialized sacristy itself did not become part of church architecture until the 16th century, when it...

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