An overview of Great church room offers a rationale of the interior. Central in the photo is the baptismal font, to the left is the high dominant pulpit, and below it the lectern. The projection in the corner leads to the ...

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 ...

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

A diminutive lectern/pulpit is to the left of the altar table.

The stand for the Gospel now reveals itself as a lectern, flanked by the pulpit with seating for the clergy. The architect has given consideration to the people who need not focus on the priest during the sermon silhouetted ...

On the left, the organ is visible and the relationship of the pulpit to font and table becomes more apparent. The circular nature of the church and varied roof planes are at first disorientating when accustomed to simple ...

Different angles produce new aspects of awareness where here we see the cantilevered stairs to the pulpit and the later addition of a rope/railing for the safety of the priest.

The liturgical center is illuminated by a clearstory bathing the altar with light, with pulpit to the left, and chapel for the reserved host to the right, with bench and chairs for clergy and acolytes spanning the chancel.

The immense space of the pilgrimage church is apparent from the street lamps which have simply been moved indoors for illumination. At the very center of the church is the altar as dictated by Rudolph Schwarz, a relative ...