The inner chamber or sanctuary of an ancient Roman temple where the cult statue was housed.
From Latin cella (small room, chamber, sanctuary). This Latin word originally meant 'storeroom' and came to refer specifically to the holiest inner sanctum of Roman temples.
The cella was so sacred that only priests could enter—it's where the god's statue lived, and the entire temple was basically built as a house for that statue!
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