Pews & Kneelers
Pews or chairs seat the congregation; many parishes also provide kneelers. Their arrangement should support the liturgy and movement.
Key points
- Common postures help express the assembly's unity in worship.
- Look for: Seating with space to kneel and move.
- An illustrative Roman Catholic parish in the Latin rite, assembled for study rather than surveyed from a single building. Plans, devotional furnishings, music, and the locations of the font and tabernacle vary; Eastern Catholic churches have other traditions. Sizes, materials, and spacing are illustrative, and displayed vessels represent different moments of worship.