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The '''kliros''' (Greek: κλήρος, plural κλήροι, "kliroi"; Slavonic: клиросъ, "kliros" or sometimes крилосъ,"krilos") is the section of the [[Churchchurch]] dedicated to the choir. It refers both to the general space in which chanters or singers assemble for the services, as well as to the actual musical stand or shelves on which music is stored and read.
Historically, in [[cathedral]]s, [[monastery|monasteries]] and larger establishments such as [[chapel]]s belonging to [[seminaries]] and major [[parish]]es, there would have been kliroses on both right and left sides of the church. The result is two choirs which sing [[antiphon|antiphonally]], much as monastic and cathedral choirs of the Western Churches still have today. This was the practice in the Byzantine Imperial Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in [[Constantinople]], whose historical liturgical practice became the standard for all churches following the Byzantine [[typikon]].