පිව් ආසනය

පිව් ආසනයනු දිගු බංකු ආසනයක් හෝ සංවෘත කුටි වන අතර එය සභාවක සාමාජිකයින් අසුන් ගැනීම, පල්ලියක ගීතිකා කණ්ඩායම, සිනගෝගු හෝ සමහර විට උසාවියක භාවිතා කරයි. ඉඳහිට, ඒවා සජීවී ප්‍රසංග ස්ථානවල ද දක්නට ලැබේ (කලින් පල්ලියක් වූ නැෂ්විල් හි රයිමන් ශ්‍රවණාගාරය වැනි). රෝමානු කතෝලික, ලූතරන් සහ ඇංග්ලිකන් සම්ප්‍රදායන්ට අයත් ක්‍රිස්තියානි පල්ලිවල, ක්‍රිස්තියානි ආගමික වතාවත්වල විවිධ කොටස් වලදී භාවිතා කරන දණ ගැසුම් ආධාරකය පිව් ආසනයේ අත්‍යවශ්‍ය අංගයකි.
දහතුන්වන සියවසේ ඉංග්‍රීසි පල්ලිවල මුල්ම පිටුපස නැති ගල් බංකු භාවිතය ආරම්භ වීමට පටන් ගත් අතර එය නාව බිත්තිවලට එරෙහිව තබුනි. කාලයාගේ ඇවෑමෙන්, ආසන කාමරයේ මැදට ගෙන එන ලද අතර, මුලින්ම චලනය කළ හැකි ගෘහ භාණ්ඩ ලෙසත් පසුව බිමට සවි කර ඇත. දහහතරවන සියවසේ සිට ගල් බංකු වෙනුවට ලී බංකු පහළොස්වන සියවසේදී බහුලව දක්නට ලැබුණි.
Pews are generally made of wood and arranged in rows facing the altar in thenaveof a church. Usually a pathway is left between pews in the center to allow for a procession; some have benchlike cushioned seating, andhassocksor footrests, although more traditional, conservative churches usually have neither cushions nor footrests. Many pews have slots behind each pew to holdBibles,prayer books,hymnalsor other church literature. Sometimes the church may also provide stations on certain rows that allow the hearing-impaired to use headsets in order to hear the sermon.  In many churches pews are permanently attached to the floor, or to a wooden platform.
In churches with a tradition of public kneeling prayer (such as the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican denominations), pews are often equipped withkneelersin front of the seating bench so members of the congregation can kneel on them instead of the floor.These kneelers essentially have long, usually padded boards which run lengthwise parallel to the seating bench of the pew.  These kneeler boards may be 15 cm or so wide and elevated perhaps 10–15 cm above the floor, but dimensions can vary widely.  Permanently attached kneelers are often made so they can be rotated or otherwise moved up out of the way when the congregation members are not kneeling.
Due to the prominence in European culture and usefulness, the usage of the pew has spread to many courtrooms in Europe and has additionally spread to Jewish synagogues due to trends of modelling synagogues similar to churches in Western Europe. In most old churches the family names are carved into the end of the pew to show who sat there but in some bigger cases the name of a village was carved into the end and only one person from every village came to mass every week.
Until the early/mid twentieth century, it was common practice in Anglican, Catholic, and Presbyterian churches to rent pews in churches to families or individuals as a principal means of raising income. This was especially common in the United States where churches lacked government support through mandatorytithing. This enforced and demonstrated social standing within a parish.
Pew rental emerged as a source of controversy in the 1840s and 1850s, especially in the Church of England. The legal status of pew rents was, in many cases, questionable.Further, it exacerbated a problem with a lack of accommodation in churches that had been noted already in the 1810s, especially in London, and in particular byRichard Yatesin his pamphletThe Church in Danger(1815) with his estimate of over 950,000 people who could not afford to worship in a parish church. St Philip's Clerkenwell, aCommissioners' church, was the first London church to break with pew rents.