telesterion

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A building used to celebrate sacred rites in Ancient Greece.
    — Central among them is what, to avoid controversy, it is convenient to call the telesterion: a building designed to accommodate the faithful inside, and thus unique among the forms of Greek sacred architecture.

词源

From Ancient Greek τελεστήριον (telestḗrion, “initiation hall”), from τελείω (teleíō, “to initiate”).
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