A route, often stone- or brick-paved, along which the statues of the gods were carried at festivals. The term is used particularly for the road leading from the Temple of Marduk to the Ishtar Gate and Akitu House temple in Babylon. About 615 BC, the Chaldeans connected the city's temples to the royal palaces with a major Processional Way, a road in which burned bricks and carefully shaped stones were laid in bituminous mortar. In ancient Egyptian towns, there is evidence of the use of paved processional roads leading to the temples. In architecture, the ambulatory is a continuation of the aisled spaces on either side of the nave around the apse or chancel to form a continuous processional way.