A Communion Table and Pulpit in a Reformed Church

by photographer: Roland Steinebach, text: Heinrich Richard Schmidt — last modified 2020-05-25T10:50:04+01:00
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The pulpit and Communion table of the Reformed church in Nümbrecht, colour photograph, 2004, photographer: Roland Steinebach; source: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_n%C3%BCmbrecht_altarges.jpg?uselang=de. Creative Commons-Lizenz Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Unported.

Blick auf Kanzel und Abendmahlstisch der Ev. Kirche in Nümbrecht, Farbphotographie, 2004, Photograph: Roland Steinebach; Bildquelle: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_n%C3%BCmbrecht_altarges.jpg?uselang=deCreative Commons-Lizenz Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Unported

Reformed churches never have an altar. Instead they have a table around which the congregation, which is ecclesiologically "the church", becomes united as the body of Christ when it partakes of Communion (four times a year).

The pulpit and Communion table of the Reformed church in Nümbrecht, colour photograph, 2004, photographer: Roland Steinebach; source: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_n%C3%BCmbrecht_altarges.jpg?uselang=de.

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