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  2. Synagogue architecture - Wikipedia

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    A synagogue may or may not have artwork; synagogues range from simple, unadorned prayer rooms to elaborately decorated buildings in every architectural style. The synagogue, or if it is a multi-purpose building, prayer sanctuaries within the synagogue, are typically designed to have their congregation face towards Jerusalem. Thus sanctuaries in ...

  3. Synagogue - Wikipedia

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    A synagogue, [a] also called a shul [b] or a temple, [c] is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It has a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, choir performances, and children's plays.

  4. Place of worship - Wikipedia

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    Many mosques have elaborate domes, minarets, and prayer halls, in varying styles of architecture. Mosques originated on the Arabian Peninsula, but are now found in all inhabited continents. The mosque serves as a place where Muslims can come together for salat (صلاة ṣalāt, meaning "prayer") as well as a center for information, education ...

  5. Hebrew cantillation - Wikipedia

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    In particular, it was necessary to invent a range of different conjunctive accents to show how to introduce and elaborate the main motif in longer phrases. (For example, tevir is preceded by mercha , a short flourish, in shorter phrases but by darga , a more elaborate run of notes, in longer phrases.)

  6. Mosaic - Wikipedia

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    The colorful mosaic floor of the synagogue room had an outer stripe decorated with flowers and birds, around medallions with animals, created by vine trellises emerging from an amphora. The central medallion enclosed a menorah (candelabrum) beneath the word shalom (peace). Mosaic of Menorah from Hammam Lif synagogue, Tunisia, 6th c. Brooklyn Museum

  7. Ecclesia and Synagoga - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones).

  9. Elaboration - Wikipedia

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    Elaborate Bytes, the Swiss software development company behind CloneDVD; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a 2009 play by Kristoffer Diaz; Operation Elaborate, the codename of the 2022 iSpoof fraud investigation; Elaborative interrogation, the use of explanations to help remember information; Elaborative encoding, a different mnemonic system