Pulpit Small 265×320 Medium 530×640 Large 848×1024 Download Tiff Original 1988×2400 | (1.7 MB) Description A pulpit (from Latin pulpitum "scaffold", "platform", "stage") is a small elevated platform from which a member of the clergy delivers a sermon in a house of worship. Keywords cathedral, church, pastor, platform, preacher, Priest, Pulpit, religion, Reverend, scaffold, Stage Galleries Ecclesiastical Furniture Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. The New Popular Educator (London, England: Cassell & Company Limited, 1891)