Tenebrae

thumb|upright=1.18|Fifteen candles on Tenebrae hearse - Antoni Gaudí - [[Sagrada Família. The candles are extinguished one by one during the course of the service.]]

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Catholic Church
Original form
Structure of the original Tenebrae
Table illustrating the contents of the service
Music
Roman Rite since 1970
Other Western Christian Churches
Lutheran practice
Anglican practice
Methodist practice
Polish National Catholic practice
Reformed practice
Western Orthodox practice
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thumb|upright=1.18|Fifteen candles on Tenebrae hearse - Antoni Gaudí - [[Sagrada Família. The candles are extinguished one by one during the course of the service.]]

Tenebrae (—Latin for 'darkness') is a religious service of Western Christianity held during the three days preceding Easter Day, and characterized by a gradual extinguishing of candles, and the strepitus or "loud noise" in the total darkness at the end of the service.