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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dahinden has again provided a running water baptistery. Here the water pouring from the sprout into a circular bowl is clearly visible and makes its presents audibly known throughout the service. In the photo, the corner ...

Seen from the choir the front of the church room contains many elements with the tapestry behind the altar giving focus to the room. The functions left to right: (half) of the altar for the reserved host, behind which is ...

Seen from a distance the relationship of (left to right) the altar/table, choir, organ console and case work (seen from the side), seating for the clergy, paschal candle, ambo, baptistery, and crucifix.

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.

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

Contrary to Schaffrath's artistic premise concerning the windows, here the great concrete frame for the liturgical center is filled with pictorial biblical iconography. Note the tabernacle for the reserved Host to the right ...

Part of the renovation involved a new pulpit and altar/table brought forward according to the dictates of Vatican II.