Assertion: altar | /r/AtLocation | east end
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text: In the succeeding centuries the eastward position in prayer was abandoned, as to a large extent was also, especially in cities, choice of an east-west axis for church buildings, and the end, furthest from the main door, in which the altar stood, could be oriented towards any point of the compass, although by convention churches are always described as though the altar is at the east end, the terms liturgical east and west often being used.