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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.
Orientation: The façade, or entrance, of the Samaritan synagogue, typically faces Mount Gerizim, which is the holiest site to Samaritans, while Jewish synagogues are oriented towards Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
Excavations of ancient synagogues show that their design generally conformed with the Talmudic and traditional rule on prayer direction. The synagogues excavated west of Eretz Israel in Miletus, Priene, and Aegina all show an eastern orientation. Josephus, in his work Against Apion, recorded that the same was the case for Egyptian synagogues
Such an orientation had not previously been a feature of synagogues of the era, but was a new custom which was just beginning to take hold. [2]: 195 This is especially noticeable with remodeling which was done in the 4th century, altering the synagogue to feature an apse in the southern wall. While the synagogue did not originally have a ...
LGBTQ synagogues (historically known as gay and lesbian synagogues [1]) are synagogues [2] ... Institute for Judaism & Sexual Orientation (Hebrew Union College ...
During the first centuries of the Common Era, Jewish religious art also was created in regions surrounding the Mediterranean such as Syria and Greece, including frescoes on the walls of synagogues, of which the Dura Europas Synagogue was the only survivor, [98] prior to its destruction by ISIL in 2017, as well as the Jewish catacombs in Rome ...
Sardis synagogue, Turkey, 3rd century.. Synagogal Judaism or Synagogal and Sacerdotal Judaism was a branch of Judaism that emerged around the 2nd century BCE with the construction of the first synagogues in the Jewish diaspora and ancient Judea.
The Győr Synagogue (Hungarian: Győri zsinagóga) is a Jewish synagogue located in the Újváros neighborhood of Győr, in Hungary. It was built in the 19th century in the Art Nouveau style, and currently serves as a museum that hosts Jewish cultural events.