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A lectern is a standing reading desk with a slanted top, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon. A lectern is usually attached to a stand or affixed to some other form of support. To facilitate eye contact and improve posture when facing an audience, lecterns may have ...
Choir (architecture) A choir, also sometimes called quire, [ 1] is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir. It is in the western part of the chancel, between the nave and the sanctuary, which houses the altar and Church tabernacle. In larger medieval churches it contained choir-stalls, seating ...
The chancel is generally the area used by the clergy and choir during worship, while the congregation is in the nave. Direct access may be provided by a priest's door, usually on the south side of the church. [ 2] This is one definition, sometimes called the "strict" one; in practice in churches where the eastern end contains other elements ...
List of largest church buildings. St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the largest church in the world. [ 1] Churches can be measured and compared in several different ways. These include area, volume, length, width, height, or capacity. Several churches individually claim to be "the largest church", which may be due to any one of these criteria.
Cologne Cathedral. 157.4 m (516 ft) 1880. Cologne. Germany. Catholic. 50°56′28″N6°57′26″E / 50.941147°N 6.957283°E / 50.941147; 6.957283 (Cologne Cathedral) Tallest building in the world 1880–1884; tallest twin tower façade; tallest cathedral in the world; place of the Shrine of the Three Kings.
The church has apparently hired a lawyer and is hoping to fix the title issue. “We should not be taxed,” Williams said. “We are a church. We’ve been known to be a ministry.” What to read ...
Eagle lectern. Stone, on the Romanesque pulpit (1207) of San Miniato al Monte, Florence. Eagle lectern at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, England. An eagle lectern is a lectern in the shape of an eagle on whose outstretched wings the Bible or other texts rest. [1] They are common in Christian churches and may be in stone, wood or metal, usually brass .
The Dunkeld Lectern, also known in Scotland as the Holyrood Bird, [1] [2] is a medieval brass eagle lectern. It stands approximately 1.6 metres high and takes the form of a large eagle or phoenix with outspread wings, [3] [4] with the bird perched on an orb supported by a turned shaft. Engraved on the orb, between two depictions of lions and a ...