People would stand on a raised platform called the bema to speak.

Any citizen could address the meeting from the Bema and vote on questions before the assembly.

The ark is mounted on a wall directly above the bema.

The room gives access towards the east to a rectangular bema.

A bema is a ceremonial platform set up in an assembly.

In 1935, only the tripartite sanctuary and the Bema were still visible.

There was a secondary bema in the eastern section.

No one knows whether the bema and the portico were also formerly painted.

Altar apse bema and the western passage make the space greater inside.

Over time, the bema (or presbytery) and choir moved eastward to their current position.

The bema is typically elevated by two or three steps, as was the bimah in the Temple.

A raised dais called a bema formed part of many large basilican churches.

One of these, the altar apse, projects outward prominently due to its large bema.

In other branches of Judaism, the bema and the Ark are joined together.

The ceremonial use of a bema carried over from Judaism into early Christian church architecture.

The interior consists of the portico, the bema, the nave and the altar.

The Bema Street tunnel was restored to street traffic after the war.

Development of the mine began in 2005 on a property owned by the Bema Gold Corporation.

A new central bema replaced the original one located in front of the aron qodesh and thus screened off by the wall.

In the half-circle of the bema, the color sequence of the church hall, gold stars on a blue background, returns.

Orthodox laity do not normally step up onto the bema except to receive Holy Communion.

A second inscription located in the north apse is translated as: 'The bema was decorated by .

The small church had three naves (possibly surmounted by a dome) and a tripartite bema.

It has a cross-in-square plan surmounted by a dome, with a bema divided in three parts and a narthex.

In Western Christianity the bema developed over time into the chancel (or presbytery) and the pulpit.