Tabernacle Location in your parish

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To the right of the altar on the dais, very clearly and prominently indicated.
 
In the middle of the Holy Table…

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It looks like two of them are wearing dalmatics.
 
At my parish, front and center behind the altar. They do have a side chapel, but that is used for daily Mass and Mass after Reconciliation.

At my old parish, where I still go to for my youth group, the tabernacle is off in a side chapel, which is annoying. Depending on where you want to sit, you have to turn 90 degrees to genuflect.

At our cathedral, they have it in a small side room. (I don’t think you could really call it a chapel, it’s really small.) They have kneelers in there as well so you can pray.
 
Front and center on the original marble High Altar, built into the reredos. With a veil changed regularly for the liturgical color of the day. This is my home parish.
Where I go for the EF Mass - the FSSP community - it also has the original high altar with tabernacle, under a baldacchino. But the veil is only on during the EF Masses because the church belongs to a regular parish that doesn’t use a veil.
The Cathedral has the tabernacle in a very small side chapel off the south transept, visible from the main altar. But they’re currently doing construction, and part of the plan is to build reredos in the sanctuary behind the main altar, and install the tabernacle there, front and center. I’m really looking forward to it!
 
Both of the churches I frequent have them front and center. I would be a little ticked if they were moved off the side.
 
In my old parish, it was to the left of the altar, so the tabernacle on one side and the baptismal font on the other.

In my current parish, the tabernacle has a little side chapel, that’s a cathedral. It’s a beautiful little chapel, the icons are lovely.

In the parish I visited today, the tabernacle was on a separate altar at the back wall behind the main altar. It also had a fabric cover, which isn’t something I’ve ever seen before.
 
The tabernacle is on a small altar to the side, where one of the side altars was located
before the Church was “renovated.” Sad to say, when the celebrant enters for Mass,
he bows to the Main Altar and ignores the Blessed Sacrament. Only our retired Bishop,
when he comes for Confirmation, turns toward the tabernacle, genuflects, then bows to the Main Altar.
 
Here is the tabernacle in my diocese’s tiny cathedral:


It’s front and center but if you look closely there are two frosted glass “doors” that close before it during Mass so that we focus on the Mass, not the tabernacle. Someone went through a lot of work, money and foolishness for this set-up. I am sure the tabernacle would be off in some closet – if there was room for a closet. To me this contraption is highly symbolic of just how screwed-up things are in my diocese.

While the bishop’s “cathedra” can be seen in the sanctuary, the place is so small that the priests, deacons and servers sit in the nearest pew…
 
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