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reredos

altarpiece, screen or decoration behind the altar in a church
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reredos

Summary

reredos ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (138 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • reredos is a type of church element[2].
  • reredos is a type of fixed construction[3].
  • reredos is a type of visual artwork[4].
  • reredos is a type of Catholic liturgical object[5].
  • reredos is a type of screen[6].
  • reredos is a type of altarpiece[7].
  • reredos is part of altar[8].
  • reredos's Commons category is recorded as Reredos[9].
  • reredos's said to be the same as is recorded as retable[10].
  • reredos's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Reredos[11].
  • reredos's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12].
  • reredos's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include church element[2], fixed construction[3], visual artwork[4], Catholic liturgical object[5], screen[6], and altarpiece[7].

Use and Application

reredos is part of altar[8].

Why It Matters

reredos ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (138 views/month).[1] reredos has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] reredos is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

LeTourneau University

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → church element, fixed construction, visual artwork +3
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Part of → altar
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 23877, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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