Specific instructions for when the congregation would stand and sit were included.

Just outside the door stood a congregation of uniformed cops.

In a moment, the entire congregation stood with heads tipped back, gazing up at her.

The naos is the space where the congregation stands during the service.

Traditionally, the congregation stands throughout the whole service, and an iconostasis separates the sanctuary from the rest of the church.

To right and left of me the barriers at which the congregation would stand during the service were lost in gloom.

The congregation stood up and raised their open palms to their ears.

The congregation stood up and amiably shuffled out, shaking hands as they did so.

The entire congregation, including foreign dignitaries, stood silently for two minutes.

Her church and its interracial congregation stood by her from the day she was arrested in 1989.