This chamber served for 4 years and 7 months, the longest tenure of any modern Dutch parliament.

A large chamber therein was serving as a death room.

During the early months of the Civil War the new chamber served as temporary soldiers' quarters.

It is T-shaped and the inner chamber would have served as the burial chamber.

In the baths at Pompeii this chamber also served as an apodyterium for those who took the warm bath.

The top chamber also serves as a secondary resonator, which gives the flute its distinctive sound.

The chamber below the chapel served the canons as their chapter house.

The east chamber served for the initiation ceremonies.

If so, then because of its grand size, this chamber surely must serve as their majlis, or meeting place.

The chambers still occasionally serve as an actual courthouse for civil trials if the new courthouse is fully in use.