Nave - 7 bays symbolizing the 7 original churches
Chancel and Choir windows - 5 sections symbolizing Christ and the 4
evangelists
Clerestory windows - 3 sections symbolizing the Trinity
Side aisle windows - 2 sections symbolizing the Old and New Testaments
Front Doors - 3 sections in each door symbolizing the Trinity
Carved border in the sanctuary and McKee Chapel - vine and grapes symbolizing
the passion of Jesus and his saying of "I am the vine . . . ye
are the branches."
Tile - Click here to view a gallery of the Moravian
Tile at Tab.
The Moravian floor tiles found throughout Tabernacle Presbyterian
Church were manufactured at the Moravian
Pottery and Tile Works near Doylestown,
Pennsylvania. Fearing that the Industrial Revolustion would render
the techniques used in handmade creamics extinct, The Moravian Pottery
and Tile Works was established by noted anthropologist, antiquarian,
artist, writer, and tile-maker Henry C. Mercer, a leader in the turn-or-the-centruy
Arts and Crafts movement, in an effort to recreate early Pennsylvania
pottery manufacturing techniques. The name Moravian was derived from
Mercer's collection of Old Moravian stove plates. Found amid the plain
glazed tiles are decorative tiles which depict various religious and
medieval symbols.
Exterior stone carvings
The Sanctuary ceiling is made of hammer beam trusses which are decorated
with the shields of the apostles.
Communion
Table decorated with the shields depicting the Apostles:
Crossed keys and inverted cross - St. Peter
Bible - St. Simon
X-shaped Cross - St. Andrew
Three silver money bags - St. Matthew
Snake and Chalice - St. John
Carpenter's Square - St. Thomas
Axe - St. Matthias
Scallop Shells - St. James
Golden Ship - St. Jude
Loaves of Bread - St. Philip
Knives - St. Bartholomew
Bell Tower - Christ and the three evangelists