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Wolpa Synagogue Cross section of a wooden synagogue. Wooden synagogues are an original style of vernacular synagogue architecture that emerged in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. [1] [2] The style developed between the mid-16th and mid-17th centuries, a period of peace and prosperity for the Polish-Lithuanian Jewish community.
Lille Synagogue, France.An eclectic hybrid with Moorish, Romanesque, classical and Baroque elements, 1892. Synagogue of the Kaifeng Jewish community in China. The ark may be more or less elaborate, even a cabinet not structurally integral to the building or a portable arrangement whereby a Torah is brought into a space temporarily used for worship.
Congregation Beth Israel, Berkeley; Beyt Tikkun Synagogue, Berkeley; Peninsula Temple Sholom, Burlingame; Congregation B'nai Israel, Daly City; Temple Beth Israel, Fresno; Temple Ahavat Shalom Northridge, Los Angeles
The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt and house of assembly with painted walls depicting people and animals, and a Torah shrine in the western wall facing Jerusalem. It was built backing on to the city wall, which was important in ...
During the community's celebration of Purim in 1911, plans to build a synagogue were announced. In 1917, the name of the congregation was changed to Congregation Brith Sholem. In 1921, the synagogue in Ogden was built. [18] At the laying of the cornerstone for the synagogue, the principal address was given by former Utah Governor Simon ...
The William Randolph House is a historic house in Cross Plains, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built by William Randolph in 1816, and expanded by Captain William Villines in 1830. [ 2 ] It served both as a private residence and as an inn; it was also the post office from 1828 to 1969. [ 2 ]
The original Ecclesia and Synagoga from the portal of Strasbourg Cathedral, now in the museum and replaced by replicas. Ecclesia and Synagoga, or Ecclesia et Synagoga in Latin, meaning "Church and Synagogue" (the order sometimes reversed), are a pair of figures personifying the Church and the Jewish synagogue, that is to say Judaism, found in medieval Christian art.
Thomas Kilgore Headstone - Found at the Villines Cemetery in Cross Plains. Thomas Kilgore (1715–1823) was an American explorer and an American Revolutionary War veteran. . Kilgore was the founder of Cross Plains, Tennessee, and the first European settler in Robertson County, Tennessee, arriving in the area in 1