Location from Marvel Comics by Marvel Entertainment
177A Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village. Doctor Strange's mystical fortress and the nexus point of Earth's magical defenses. Looks like a brownstone. Contains infinity.
The Sanctum Sanctorum is dimensionally larger on the inside than the outside, a fact that becomes apparent the moment you step through the front door and find yourself in a soaring foyer that could not possibly fit within a Village brownstone. Staircases shift orientation. Hallways extend into distances that suggest the building touches other dimensions at its edges. The air is thick with incense — sandalwood, myrrh, and compounds that have no earthly name — mixed with the dry-paper smell of ancient grimoires. The Cloak of Levitation drifts through rooms on its own errands. Wong maintains the household with the patience of a man who has seen reality fold inside out and still needs to do the dishes. Artifacts line every shelf and fill every cabinet: the Wand of Watoomb, the Orb of Agamotto, the Book of the Vishanti. Some of them whisper. The building itself is alive in a sense — the Sanctum serves as an anchor point for Earth's mystical barriers, and when those barriers are threatened, the house groans and shifts in response.
A three-story brownstone townhouse in Greenwich Village with a distinctive circular window on the top floor — the Seal of the Vishanti, which glows faintly at all hours. The facade is weathered brick and worn stonework, deliberately unremarkable, though observant passersby notice the building seems to occupy more space than its lot should allow. The front door sometimes opens onto rooms that weren't there yesterday. The circular window watches the street like an eye.
Also known as: the Sanctum, 177A Bleecker, Strange's house