Epistle side

In the liturgical traditions of Western Christianity, the Epistle side is the term used to designate the side of a church on which the Epistle is read during a church service.

It is the right-hand side of the chancel as viewed by the congregation from the nave.

[3] The same occurs in Methodist parishes with a divided chancel though not in Methodist parishes designed with a pulpit-centered chancel that features a central pulpit that is situated behind the communion table (as with other Anglican and Presbyterian churches).

[4] Within the Catholic Church, in the Tridentine Mass, which is still in use among some communities, the lectern holding the Missal is moved from the Epistle side of the altar to the Gospel side after the reading of the Epistle.

This article about the architecture of churches or other Christian places of worship is a stub.

The chancel of Saint Stephen's Lutheran Church in Allentown ; on the side left to the altar is the pulpit from which the Gospel is read by the pastor. On the side right of the altar is the lectern from which the Epistle is read, normatively by a reader .