why do churches have steeples?

Answer 1

So you can see all the peoples!

Answer 2

Here is something I found out: Until quite recently, accurate clocks were either nonexistent or expensive. In fact, standard time wasn’t invented until the nineteenth century, so even when clocks became common, each person set his clock by the sun, which meant that they could differ considerably. The time of day was very approximate—for example, in the New Testament, everything happened at either the third, sixth, or ninth hour. People told time by the position of the sun, which is part guesswork, and on overcast days they had to go by feel.


So you can see that until very recently, it was impossible to fix Sunday morning worship at, say, 9:30 and expect everyone to show up on time.

In the beginning, Christian worship was at sunrise. Sunrise and sunset are the only two times of day about which everyone can be unanimous without accurate timepieces. But after Christianity became legal, pious Christians wanted to worship at different times of the day and on all days of the week, so it became necessary to develop some means of announcing the time of worship to the public. Church buildings acquired bell towers for this purpose, and they evolved into today’s steeples. Now that we have accurate and inexpensive watches, we don’t need church bells to tell us when to set out for church. So steeples have become decorative—though I understand that their original function is beginning to return.

Synagogues do not have steeples for the simple reason that ringing a bell on the Sabbath violates the Law.

Steeples are more or less a western European innovation. Churches in Bavaria, Austria, and points east have historically had domes, not steeples. Steeples have never been a feature of churches in Africa or Asia, either.

I think steeples also made the building easy to pick out in the older landscape that was much flater.

Answer 3

Not all churches have steeples. Steeples often were the conical or elongated triangle roofs of bell towers in the Christian West. The Christian East often had domes on their towers.
Steeples do make churches easier to find.

Answer 4

According to historians for religion, many beliefs, as far as as ten thousand years, include a pillar or axis or mountain -- physical or spiritual -- reaching up to the sun, the sky, their gods, through which their prayers travel. I think steeples are an extension of this.

Answer 5

So they can imitate Nimrod from Babel / Babylon.
Gen. 10:1, 8-10,11:1-9.
'Come on! Let's build a city and a tower so high
that its top will reach into the heavens.
Then we will be famous!'

EDIT: see! what A G & Ester wrote?
I told You!!

Answer 6

So we can play that game, here is the church, here is the steeple, open it up and here are the people. It would be no fun without them.♥

Answer 7

Look what I found........


http://www.remnantofgod.org/steeple.htm


Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth HAVE BEEN MADE DRUNK with the wine of her fornication.



Hmm.

Answer 8

Two reasons: asethics (they are beautiful and reach "to heaven") and also many times they had a bell tower to call people to the service.

Answer 9

So they are more visible , also they act as a lightening rod placement to protect the building .

Answer 10

So the priests can hide in them while they molest kids.