Church Furniture

When you go to the church, you will find most of the Church furniture is made from wood. That’s because wood adds a touch of elegance and calmness in the church.

There are a lot of items made of wood there, beginning with the benches and the crosses

till the wooden alter separators found in the ancient churches and the ceiling decorations.

In the past especially in the ancient eastern churches, artists were competing to do their best carvings in the Church furniture.

You can see this obvious in the eastern countries like Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.

One of the important examples for the Church furniture is the wooden frames of the church icons. It is a very delicate item and it contains a lot of hand made work in carving and staining.

In the eastern countries you would find a lot of these icon frames as well as the Church furniture itself made from wood decorated with oyster.

The oyster shells are crushed into small regular or irregular pieces to form decorations in wood resembling the mosaic effect on the walls and floor.

It is a very accurate procedure to add another material to wood as it needs skill full workers and talented designers.

The Church furniture is full of this kind of material bleedings and unique designs.The wooden cross is the most important piece of the Church furniture and it is made from the finest kinds of wood,

some times scented wood. It contains a lot of decoration and carvings and blended with some other materials like gold or silver which adds a very nice effect to wood.