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If free-standing, they could be placed, as also in Eastern Christianity, within a ciborium (sometimes called a baldachin).The rules regarding the present-day form of the Roman Rite liturgy declare a free-standing main altar to be "desirable wherever possible". Similarly, in the Anglican Communion, the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer assumed an altar fixed against the wall, until Prayer Book revision in the

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