Assertion: cathedral's altar | /r/CapableOf | face west
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text: This expanded basilica now demonstrated three additional features that became characteristic of early cathedrals; an enclosure at the eastern end of the church surrounding the altar; a synthronos east of the altar facing west, and consisting of a raised dais with a centrally place bishop's throne and benches either side for the clergy of his familia; and a paritioned off narthex at the western end into which catechumens would withdraw during the central act of the Eucharistic liturgy.