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El Escorial, Spain, was constructed from a plan based on the descriptions of Solomon's temple. [12] Several churches and synagogues have been designed to evoke the Temple. The most famous of them is el Escorial, the royal residence of Spain (1563–1584) by architect Juan Bautista de Toledo under the order of Philip II of Spain. The central ...
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.
The following is a list of temples associated with the Jewish religion throughout its history and development, including Yahwism.While in the modern day, Rabbinic Jews will refer to "The Temple", and state that temples other than the Jerusalem temple, especially outside Israel, [1] are invalid, during the era in which Judaism had temples, multiple existed concurrently.
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Hebrew: קהל קדוש בית אלוהים, lit. 'Holy Congregation House of God', [3] also known as K. K. Beth Elohim, or more simply Congregation Beth Elohim) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located in Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States.
The Temple Scroll is written in Hebrew in the square Herodian script of the late Second Temple Period, and comprises 65 columns (19 pieces of leather) and is 9 metres in length. [2] The outer part of the scroll sustained considerable damage over the many centuries with the consequence that Columns 2 to 14 have many missing words and phrases. [ 2 ]
Beth El Synagogue is a historic synagogue at 359–375 Cooke Street in Waterbury, Connecticut.Built in 1929, it is the first synagogue in the state to be built in the Byzantine Revival style, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 for its architecture. [1]
Jewish architecture comprises the architecture of Jewish religious buildings and other buildings that either incorporate Jewish elements in their design or are used by Jewish communities. Oriental style— Belz Great Synagogue (2000), Jerusalem.
The Mishkan Shilo synagogue in Shilo is a replica of the Jewish Temple Synagogue construction over the last two thousand years has followed the outlines of the original tabernacle. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Every synagogue has at its front an ark, aron kodesh , containing the Torah scrolls, comparable to the Ark of the Covenant which contained the tablets ...