Home stoup

A home stoup is a small stoup with a small bowl and a decorated plaque that Christians in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran traditions hang inside homes,[1][2] either at the house's entrance or, more commonly, on a bedroom wall at the head of the bed.

and cheap (faience, ceramic, wood) materials; dependent on the fortunes of their owners.

They were handmade with a painting or relief of Jesus, the Cross, the Virgin Mary, an angel or other religious subjects.

[4] Most of these stoups were destroyed or disappeared during the French Revolution in 1789 and in following years, due to its policy of de-Christianization.

These stoups were often handed down the generations, but their use decreased in France after 1900, although some believers continue to use them today.