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In Sephardic synagogues, the table for reading the Torah (reading dais) was commonly placed at the opposite side of the room from the Torah Ark, leaving the center of the floor empty for the use of a ceremonial procession carrying the Torah between the Ark and the reading table. [28] Most contemporary synagogues feature a lectern for the rabbi ...
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.
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.
Bikur Cholim Synagogue, Bridgeport; Ein Jacob (Ayn Yacob) Synagogue, Bridgeport; Temple Beth Israel, Danielson; Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue, Hartford; Temple Beth Israel, Hartford
For a similar list with more than 230 synagogues see: List of synagogues in Poland Portugal: Kadoorie Synagogue ( Porto ), Beit Eliyahu ( Belmonte ), Synagogue of Tomar ( Tomar ), Lisbon Synagogue ( Lisbon ), Sahar Hassamaim Synagogue ( Ponta Delgada ).
The Old Synagogue in Erfurt, Germany, portions of which date from c. 1100 The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca was built in Toledo, Spain in 1190. The Old New Synagogue in Prague, Bohemia (Czech Republic), the oldest synagogue in continuous use, built around 1270, compares similarly with the Ramban synagogue in Safed, modern Israel.
Ades Synagogue, in Jerusalem, also known as the Great Synagogue Ades of the Glorious Aleppo Community; Belz Great Synagogue, in Jerusalem, the second-largest synagogue in the world
As early as 1923 the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Abraham Kook and Jacob Meir, mooted plans for a large central synagogue in Jerusalem.It was over 30 years later in 1958 when Heichal Shlomo, seat of the Israeli Rabbinate, was founded, that a small synagogue was established within the building.