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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

transepto
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Term of religious architecture that can be equivalent to cruise ship and that names the transverse nave that crosses perpendicular to the main one in the Christian churches both Romanesque and Gothic, of Latin or Greek cross. This space separated the area from the simple faithful from that of the ecclesiastics to which the etymology refers : trans-saeptum : beyond the fence .

  




Alfredo Edgardo Alvarez Ahumada

TRANSEPTO:NAVE MAJOR OR CENTRAL CRISS CROSS FROM A CHURCH.

  



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