Pulpit Facts for Kids

A modern pulpit between flowers and flags

A pulpit (from Latin pulpitum "scaffold", "platform", "stage") is a small lifted platform where a member of the clergy stands to read a Gospel lesson, or give a sermon. In some Protestant churches, the pulpit is thought to be the most important piece of furniture in the sanctuary.

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The pulpit of the Notre-Dame de Revel in Revel, Haute-Garonne, France
Pulpit at Blenduk Church in Semarang, Indonesia, with large sounding board and cloth antependium
"Two-decker" pulpit in an abandoned Welsh chapel, with reading desk below
1870 Gothic Revival oak pulpit, Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland
Ambo, in the modern Catholic sense, in Austria
19th century wooden pulpit in Canterbury Cathedral
The carved wooden pulpit of the Basilica of Saint Clotilde in Paris, France
Martin Luther's pulpit c.1525, Lutherhaus, Wittenberg
Centrally-placed three-decker pulpit at Gibside Chapel, England, a private chapel on the Calvinist edge of Anglicanism.
Siena Cathedral Pulpit, by Nicola Pisano, 1268
External gothic pulpit in Saint-Lô, France
Outdoor pulpit of Giovanni da Capistrano, Vienna Austria
St James's Church, Piccadilly, in the center of London, 1680s
Open-air pulpit in the forecourt of the Chapel at Scotch College, Melbourne
Fr. Coughlin's outdoor pulpit at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan.
John Wesley's Traveling Pulpit at the World Methodist Museum, Lake Junaluska, NC
A modern pulpit in Jakobskirken, Roskilde, Denmark.
A pulpit in the chancel of a Methodist church in Ohio
Ambon of Henry II (1014), Aachen Cathedral
Baroque pulpit of 1613 carved in wood by Paolo Froni Parma Cathedral
Italian pulpit of 1150 or older
Gothic wood, France
Late Baroque polychromed wood in a South German pilgrimage church
Pulpit in Irsee Abbey, Bavaria in the shape of a ship's prow
A late 18th century pulpit in a small Catholic church in Spielfeld, Styria, Austria.
Enånger old church in Sweden
boat-shaped German Rococo pulpit
Terracotta Pieve delle Sante Flora e Lucilla in Santa Fiora, Italy
Stone pulpit at Chiesa Bartolomeo in Pantano Pistoia Italy
Pulpit at St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Yaroslavl, Russia (17th century)
Stone pulpit at Worcester cathedral England
Wooden pulpit at the Church of the Holy Ghost in Tallinn in Estonia
Pulpit at the Porvoo Cathedral in Porvoo, Finland
Many of the most elaborate Catholic pulpits are from Baroque Belgium
Baroque Church of St. Anne in Kraków, Poland
A Calvinist 17th century pulpit of the Calvinist Dutch Reformed church in Buren, the Netherlands.
Gallus chapel in Greifensee ZH, Switzerland
Baroque pulpit in the Amiens Cathedral, France
Saint-Thiébaut Church, Thann, France
Monastery of Santa María de Huerta, Spain
Strasbourg Cathedral, France
Old Ship Church, Hingham, Massachusetts
Stone with wooden top in the Collégiale Saint-Florent, Niederhaslach, France
Gothic-revival "wine glass" pulpit and sounding board from 1872 in St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina
Neo-Byzantine in the Catholic Westminster Cathedral
Pulpit at balcony level, St. Peter Lutheran, Serbin, Texas
The Jacobean pulpit of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, which is now located perpendicular to the communion table

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