The warmth of the wood of the pews together with the stained glass floor-to-ceiling windows give some relief from the bare concrete walls which nonetheless give a certain aura of austere majesty. The altar/table is off the ...

Influenced by the liturgical renewal that later had such an impact on Vatican II the altar/table is indeed a table in appearance.

Left to right: pulpit, altar table, baptismal pool/font. The altar makes but the slightest bow to the Vatican II emphasis on altar as also a table.

Again we see the juxtaposition of the contemporary with the pulpit, freestanding altar/table, and seats for the clergy with the traditional high altar, tabernacle, and crucifix, and completing the visual focus, on the wall ...

Choir of Koln Cathedral with contemporary altar and high altar with reliquary of the three magi at the head of the apse.

The altar continues the brutalist theme as do the chairs for the clergy. Whatever ones attitude towards brutalism, the elements none the less convey the permanence of sacrament and sacerdotium.

The modern pews give way to an apparently traditional liturgical center with pulpit, altar/table, baptismal font, and tabernacle for the reserved Host.

In the foreground, one senses the uneven stone work of a sloping floor. To the side are pews which will seat fifty of the rooms capacity of two hundred. In front are the communion rails, on the slightly raised platform of ...

The oval entry at the bottom of the photo leads to the martyerium. It is surmounted by an altar for contemporary worship. Above that is the 12th century choir and Baldanquin with gold crown and angels standing over the high altar.

Alongside the entrance at the base of one of the flanking towers is an altar for the side chapel. Its stark simplicity with the light from the clerestories and candle and stuccoed cylindrical walls lend an aura of sanctity ...