Note 503 — Chapter V · THE ORIENTATION OF CHURCHES
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Apost. Constit. II. 57, “Ac primo quidem aedes fit oblonga, ad Orientem versa, ex utraque parte Pastophoria versum Orientem habens, et quae navi sit similis”; W. Smith and S. Cheetham, Dict. of Christian Antiquities, 1880, art. “Orientation.” The date of the “Constitutions” is discussed by the Rev. de Lacy O’Leary, in The Apostolical Constitutions and Cognate Documents, 1906, p. 69.