1
: a compartment in the auditorium of a church providing seats for several persons
2
: one of the benches with backs and sometimes doors fixed in rows in a church
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Elevation invites visitors to carve wishes, worries, and hopes into the church pews.
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
2 July 2026
More than 140 family members and friends filled the 18th century Victorian house of worship’s wooden pews, iconic for featuring ornate animals carved into their ends.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2026
During a visitation Friday, dozens sat in the pews of West Gilmore Church of Christ back in Senatobia.
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Jeremy Mikula,
NBC news,
28 June 2026
Two thousand years later, the Melkite Archbishop of Tyre, Georges Eskandar, was saying mass in the stone cathedral with about one hundred people filling the pews.
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Jane Arraf,
NPR,
23 June 2026
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
2 July 2026
More than 140 family members and friends filled the 18th century Victorian house of worship’s wooden pews, iconic for featuring ornate animals carved into their ends.
—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2026
During a visitation Friday, dozens sat in the pews of West Gilmore Church of Christ back in Senatobia.
—
Jeremy Mikula,
NBC news,
28 June 2026
Two thousand years later, the Melkite Archbishop of Tyre, Georges Eskandar, was saying mass in the stone cathedral with about one hundred people filling the pews.
—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
23 June 2026
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“Pew.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pew. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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pew
noun
: one of the benches with backs and sometimes doors set in rows in a church
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