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Church Christmas decorations are
very essential to mark the day of
festivity and jubilation. People all
across the globe visit church and
pray to Lord Jesus. In fact, Christmas
is celebrated as the day when Lord
Jesus was born. Hence, all the churches
also observe this religious Christian
festival with great pomp and gaiety.
The churches are decked up and there
is lighting all over.
History tells us that that since
15th century, churches are following
the tradition of embellishing the
compound and pews for this day. They
adopted this custom and henceforth,
Christmas decorations became craze
all over the world. Initially, the
church authorities used Christmas
décor items like Holm, ivy, bays and
other affordable seasonal greens for
decking up the church.
However, in ancient England, church
Christmas decorations were done with
the help of sprigs of holly and yew.
These were stuck into the higher pews
to give it a forest look. But with
changing times, Christmas church decorations
have also undergone changes and have
adopted many fresh forms of church
decorations. Moreover, church Christmas
decoration also varies from country
to country. Lets take a look at different
country church Christmas decoration.
New Zealand church celebrates Christmas
in a grand way. But their decoration
is elegant and classic using only
flowers. They often display flowers
as part of the Christmas church decorations.
Since flowers interpret some of the
phrases in the Bible for the Christian
faith, hence, it is widely used for
church décor.
Italian churches are famous for putting
up native scenes for decorations.
These form the major part of its decoration.
The sceneries are based on the various
incidents that took place while Lord
Jesus was born. It could include the
scene of newly born baby Jesus with
Mother Mary and Joseph, the three
wise men who traveled to see the baby
Jesus and a shepherd.
With these as themes, artisans also
make varied mangers so that it could
be used for placing it at the corners
in the church. Besides, there could
be pictures with small trees, grottoes,
rivers, lights of ‘Bethlehem’ in the
background, lakes and angels. Candles
are also extensively used for decking
up churches on Christmas.
So, Christmas church decoration is
important part of the Christmas celebration.
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