Interior of Eastern Churches

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I’ve never been in an Eastern Rite Church, but I’m curious, how would they look different from a Latin Rite Church?
 
It depends on the church, really. The Catholic Church has an array of beautiful architecture, which is meant to symbolize Heaven.
 
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I’ve never been in an Eastern Rite Church, but I’m curious, how would they look different from a Latin Rite Church?
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Byzantine or Coptic parishes will have icons… lots of them. The altar is behind a screen or wall, usually with 4 doors in 3 doorways. The screen will have icons of Christ and Mary flanking the double door, and often, icons of the gospel writers on those doors.

Expect not to see kneelers; traditional parishes will also lack seating in the nave, or if present, it will often be benches along the sides or folding or stacking chairs.
 
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Byzantine or Coptic parishes will have icons… lots of them. The altar is behind a screen or wall, usually with 4 doors in 3 doorways. The screen will have icons of Christ and Mary flanking the double door, and often, icons of the gospel writers on those doors.

Expect not to see kneelers; traditional parishes will also lack seating in the nave, or if present, it will often be benches along the sides or folding or stacking chairs.
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Can I see a picture of a Church interior?
 
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Does it look different?
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You can see one on the altar at St. George’s.

Different from what? It looks like a tabernacle to us! 😉

Pani Rose, when did St. George’s take down the Eucharistic dove? I always admired it!
 
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Given the lack of standardization in Roman ones, and the fact that there IS a standard for Byzantine ones… YES.

A byzantine style tabernacle usually looks like a miniature church. Onion domes and all.

Roman ones are supposed to look like any of the following: A dove, a tent, a church. I’ve seen all three.
 
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bacon man,

Here are the interiors of a couple of Assyro-Chaldean Catholic parishes:

Church of Our Lady Guardian of Plants - Melbourne, Australia
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Chaldean Catholic Church of Mar Petyun - Diyarbakir/Amed, Turkey


God bless,

Rony
 
The dove suspended from the ceiling is also a traditional form of the tabernacle in addition to the form of a small church that rests on the altar. This is from St. Demetrius Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the Toronto area. The altar is square and the dove-tabernacle (kivot in Ukrainian) can be seen through the open Holy Doors behind and slightly to the left of the celebrating bishop (+Stepan of Donetsk) who was visiting at the time.

St. Demetrius Church - St. Demetrius Church

stdemetriuschurch.ca stdemetriuschurch.ca
 
bpbasilphx said:
You can see one on the altar at St. George’s.

Different from what? It looks like a tabernacle to us! 😉

Pani Rose, when did St. George’s take down the Eucharistic dove? I always admired it!
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The dove was moved to the chapel back before we came there in 1986. I know there is a reason, but can’t remember why. Although it is St. Joachim and Ann’s chapel, and Sayedna Raya had a great devotion to St. Ann.

Also, they remodeled the Altar, and placed the the - humm, can’t think of the right word, but a small tabernacle on there. So it was a duplication I guess. Also, the dove was very small, and hard to keep clean. They are very hard to find now.

It was interesting when they replace the old floor, they found some icons that had been done by an old parishner - not really as we would see the icons in the Church today - very neat with large glass stones. Long forgotten, they now hang in the rectory. I guess they must have been placed under there so they would not be lost or somehow discarded.
 
For the Ruthenians, at least, the Ordo Celebrationis requires the tabernacle look like a church…
I. Prenotions Concerning the Sanctuary and the Holy Altar
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3. The artophorium or the tabernacle, which is placed in the center of the holy altar, should be constructed to the image of a small church or sepluchre. It should not be so high or hide that hence then liturgical actions of the celebrant or concelebrants would be impeded or rendered more difficult.
patronagechurch.com/Ordo-English-1955/htm/001.htm
 
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