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  2. Choir (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The Quire in Palencia Cathedral in northern Spain, an example of a monastic quire. In the Early Church, the sanctuary was connected directly to the nave.The choir was simply the east part of the nave, and was fenced off by a screen or low railing, called cancelli, which is where the English word chancel comes from.

  3. Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington - Wikipedia

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    Similar to the sanctuary, it features an overhanging roof and wrapping clerestory windows. [5] The sanctuary's meeting space measures 62 feet (19 m) by 62 feet and features a polished reinforced concrete floor set in a large grid pattern. The north, east, and west walls are faced with beige brick while the ceiling is exposed concrete.

  4. Pew - Wikipedia

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    Traditional solid oak church pews. A pew (/ ˈ p juː /) is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, funeral home or sometimes a courtroom. Occasionally, they are also found in live performance venues (such as the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, which was formerly a church).

  5. Chancel - Wikipedia

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    Plan with the broader definition of the chancel highlighted View from the nave of the chancel of Condom Cathedral in France, with ambulatories and two altars, the modern one in the choir St Peter's, Lilley, Hertfordshire a medium-sized English church showing the nave, chancel arch, and a chancel with choir and sanctuary. In church architecture ...

  6. Altar rail - Wikipedia

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    Wooden and iron altar rails in St Pancras Church, Ipswich. The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, [1] [2] from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.

  7. Kneeler - Wikipedia

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    The Missal, by John William Waterhouse (1902), depicts a woman kneeling on a prie-dieu, a piece of furniture with a built-in kneeler. A kneeler is a cushion (also called a tuffet, hassock, genuflexorium, or genuflectorium) or a piece of furniture used for resting in a kneeling position during Christian prayer.

  8. Prie-dieu - Wikipedia

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    From the 16th century onwards, wooden benches or chairs were made available, according to an order fixed by the customary law, and rented from the farmer who was the successful bidder for the "chair farm" or from the churchwarden, the fixed prices (increased during solemn masses) being collected by the chairmaker.

  9. Sacred Heart Cathedral (Rochester, New York) - Wikipedia

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    Apart from structural repairs and improvements, the renovation comprised moving the altar from the front of the church to the center in order to foster a feeling of participation, removing a large statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus hung on the wall in the sanctuary and replacing it with a new organ (the choir will now stand in the former altar ...

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