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Pages in category "Moorish Revival architecture in Illinois" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
B’nai Sholom Temple is a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Quincy, Illinois, in the United States. Founded as a congregation in 1852, [1] the synagogue building was built in 1870 in the Moorish Revival style. The original 80-foot (24 m) high, twin minaret-style towers were damaged by a tornado in 1947 and not replaced.
The Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.
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The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar (1825–1832) an early example of Moorish revival architecture is located in Gibraltar, which formed part of Moorish Al-Andalus between 711 and 1462 AD. Immaculate Conception Church (New Orleans), (a.k.a. Jesuit Church) is a striking example of Moorish Revival Architecture. Across the street was the ...
B. B'nai Israel Synagogue (Baltimore) Temple B'nai Shalom (Brookhaven, Mississippi) Synagogue of Besançon; Bet Mordechai Synagogue, La Goulette; Young Israel Beth El of Borough Park
The term "Moorish" or "neo-Moorish" sometimes also covered an appropriation of motifs from a wider range of Islamic architecture. [19] [89] This style was a recurring choice for Jewish synagogue architecture of the era, where it was seen as an appropriate way to mark Judaism's non-European origins.
Masonic Temple (Aurora, Illinois) 1924 built 1982 NRHP-listed 104 S. Lincoln Ave. Aurora, Illinois: Classical Revival [3] 2: Masonic Temple (Chicago, Illinois) 1892 built 1939 demolished Chicago, Illinois