It depends on what kind of church. Within the Christian churches seats are aligned into what is referred to as "pews," which are really long backed benches arranged in rows where the congregation sits.
In a catholic church there are always a huge row of benches. These seats do not have a particular name. ---- A second answer: the bench in a Catholic church is sometimes called a pew.
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There are a few ways to calculate church seating capacity. If the church has pews the average person should have about 3 feet of space.
Seating
One obvious way seating in a church can affect the church community is in how comfortable the seats are. Unless the church service is short, poor seats can be quite distracting. In a different fashion, though, church seating can affect the community in which the church resides because, in some small rural areas, the town church is still considered to be the focal point for town activities, such as town meetings. A church with adequate seating can make the difference between that building being usable for town activities or not.
Well technically there is only three kinds of seating, Open Admissions, Festival Seating, and Reserved Seating.
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Lakewood Church in Houston, TX pastored by Rev. Joel Osteen. The sanctuary has a seating compacity of over 30,000.
For comfortable seating capacity, measure the length of the pew in inches and divide it by 25 for comfortable seating capacity.http://newlifeministries-nlm.org/people/3-13_Crowded.htm
The benches, generally called "pews," in contemporary Presbyterian churches are not divided for any reason other than the practicalities of seating arrangements. The trend in newer church buildings is for modular seating, with individual upholstered chairs that can be linked together into benches or other arrangements.
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The church is just the church. Ecclesia was mistranslated as "church" but it (Ecclesia) means assembly.
A pew is somewere were worshippers come to sit and listen the preists talks or for the Sunday special event.