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A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin pulpitum (platform or staging). [1] The traditional pulpit is raised well above the surrounding floor for audibility and visibility, accessed by steps, with sides coming to about waist height.
The church’s name Ephphatha comes from the New Testament book of Mark’s account of Jesus healing a deaf man: Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed and said to him “Ephphatha,” that is ...
An iconostasis with a rounded stone ambon of two steps (Beloiannisz, Hungary).. The ambon or ambo (Greek: ἄμβων, meaning "pulpit"; Slavonic: amvón) in its modern usage is a projection coming out from the soleas (the walkway in front of the iconostasis) in an Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic church.
By metonymy, bema was also a place of judgement, being the extension of the raised seat of the judge, as described in the New Testament, in Matthew 27:19 and John 19:13, and further, as the seat of the Roman emperor, in Acts 25:10, and of God, in Romans 14:10, when speaking in judgment.
In the Christian Church, the lectern is usually the stand on which the Bible or other texts rest and from which the "lessons" (scripture passages, often selected from a lectionary) are read during the service. The lessons may be read or chanted by a priest, deacon, minister, or layperson, depending upon the liturgical traditions of the community.
Speaking to Utah's ABC4, Thatcher said she "just thought of my cousins" and also "asked my mom a lot of questions" while preparing. "Chloe is a lot more in touch, so I got a lot of feedback from ...
However, in 1990, the federal government passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, which overhauled the country's building practices. But some assisted living facilities use state laws ...
Ottoman-era minbar of the Molla Çelebi Mosque in Istanbul.. A minbar (Arabic: منبر; sometimes romanized as mimber) is a pulpit in a mosque where the imam (leader of prayers) stands to deliver sermons (خطبة, khutbah).