Are Home Altars A Lutheran Tradition?

[jonathan1971]

As the title suggests. I was curious to know.

 

[LilLamb219]

No. I've never seen a home altar.

 

[AngCath]

My wife and I have a kneeler with prayer books, Bible, etc. in our house, but don't refer to it as an "altar." Does that count?

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

My wife and I have a kneeler with prayer books, Bible, etc. in our house, but don't refer to it as an "altar." Does that count?

And a gaggle of icons, for my part, but otherwise same.

 

[jonathan1971]

My wife and I have a kneeler with prayer books, Bible, etc. in our house, but don't refer to it as an "altar." Does that count?

I dunno. I was just curious. I've never seen one in any of the Lutheran homes I've been in but the majority of my church are from a reformed background.

I googled it and the hits I came up with are mainly young Catholics or new converts to Catholicism. The catholic homes I remember from my childhood never had one. So I was just curious to see if this was a recent invention or if there was a tradition of having one that got lost when people immigrated to the US

 

[AngCath]

I don't have any info either way. In our case, my wife and I are more 'catholic-minded' than others. I myself spent about 10 years traveling in Anglo-Catholic circles. So, we may not be particularly good examples.

 

[LilLamb219]

I dunno. I was just curious. I've never seen one in any of the Lutheran homes I've been in but the majority of my church are from a reformed background.

I googled it and the hits I came up with are mainly young Catholics or new converts to Catholicism. The catholic homes I remember from my childhood never had one. So I was just curious to see if this was a recent invention or if there was a tradition of having one that got lost when people immigrated to the US

My husband and all his family (and a great majority of our former town) are Catholic. Never saw one in any of their homes either.

 

[George95]

The topic title caught my eye, sorry.

I've never seen any other church other than the Catholic and Orthodox Churches where the faithful have a home altar. A home altar to me is icons(For those who are EO or have EO sympathies), a mini hand censer with incense, and then prayer books.

 

[SalusaSecundus]

As the title suggests. I was curious to know.

I had one set up when I was a Catholic.

I don't have it anymore.

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

The topic title caught my eye, sorry.

I've never seen any other church other than the Catholic and Orthodox Churches where the faithful have a home altar. A home altar to me is icons(For those who are EO or have EO sympathies), a mini hand censer with incense, and then prayer books.

Like this?

 

[George95]

Sort of. We have a table in our living room with the icons, the Gospel Book the priest uses, my censer, and then various prayer books.

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Sort of. We have a table in our living room with the icons, the Gospel Book the priest uses, my censer, and then various prayer books.

Yeah we need to get a censor before we have kids so they get used to it. I'd actually like to get a real set of prie-dieux for the home. I'd also like to move it somewhere else besides the bedroom, but no thoughts on that yet.

 

[George95]

I grew up with my mom always using the hand censer in the house. It would probably be pretty tricky bringing it with the kids. Haha let's not get too off topic though.

 

[Kalevalatar]

No.

Some Lutherans have private prayer corners while others have pictures of kids.