ArkiStan

This may be a stupid question...

I'm planning to cook some steak next weekend and was checking out my oven as I have never used it since I moved into my new place. I always thought ovens had exposed heat coils somewhere inside like a toaster oven. But when I looked inside my oven, I noticed there aren't any coils on the top. There are simply a couple large holes where I assume the heat comes from. Are all gas stoves like this? Or did some bastard steal my coils?? It's a rather old oven that looks somewhat like this:

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