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holy of holies

Innermost and most sacred apartment of the Temple of Jerusalem, where the Ark of the Covenant was kept until the Temple was destroyed in AD 70. In other religious buildings, the holy of holies, or sanctum sanctorum, is the inmost shrine.



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