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Does your church have pews?

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Troubledwords · 24/10/2025 08:42

Taking an non church going friend to visit a cathedral last night, and explaining to her that they had removed the pews, not only there but in a lot of churches these days.

Has your church taken out pews or do you still have them? If they've been removed do you miss them?

We still have pews in my church.

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OldJohn · 26/10/2025 09:25

Troubledwords · 26/10/2025 08:58

Do you find that you still have enough for busier times like Christmas and Easter?

I think that is a plus, that you can easily add more chairs, if you have the space, whereas you can't really do that when you have pews. It becomes very squished and crowded when you have more people than pew space for them.

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We have another 90 chairs stored in a side room and if we need more than that we have 80 chairs in the church hall.

Catinabeanbag · 28/10/2025 12:35

We don't have pews - never have. Our church is 100 years old, and had wooden chairs when it was built, now has more padded chairs. We don't have our own church hall, so the space is used for various things during the week and having that flexibility is really good.
We do have pews for the choir and in the chapel though, just not in the nave.

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