Editing Altar rail (section)

==Lutheran churches==
[[File:Jesuskirken Copenhagen quire.jpg|thumb|Lutheran chancel rails in [[Copenhagen]], Denmark]]
[[File:St John the Evangelist, Moggerhanger, Beds - East end - geograph.org.uk - 329953.jpg|thumb|Anglican chancel rails in [[Moggerhanger]], England]]
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:ELCA Eucharistic recption.jpg|left|thumb|170px|People receiving the Eucharist at a Lutheran church with an altar rail]] -->

Within Lutheranism, the altar rail is the common place for a pastor to hear a [[Confession in the Lutheran Church|confession]],<ref>[http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/langconfession&absolution.pdf Lutheran Confession theology]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Retrieved 2010-02-11.</ref> confession being generally required to receive the Eucharist for the [[First Communion|first]] time.<ref>''[[Apology of the Augsburg Confession]]'', article 24, paragraph 1. Retrieved 2010-02-11.</ref>