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anyone may be moved to speak. For this reason the meeting room's benches are placed in roughly a square arrangement. However, it was expected that certain elders of the meeting were likely to speak more often, and so two benches were built on the north wall, known as the facing bench and the back bench. All three balconies have a reasonable view of the facing bench and the back bench. In later years the three balconies were enclosed and turned into First Day (Sunday) school rooms.
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