Hasidic Synagogue
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On-going project to enlarge Hasidic synagogue in New York State. We've been working on this building for over 15 years with additions, improvements etc. This is probably the final expansion on this site. Building is over 60,000 square feet.
Allen
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Another view
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Last one. You may have noticed that this is an in progress model and the ground plane is still not resolved. Imported Google Earth as the base for the model and trying to work the topography. Not there yet,
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oops, sorry for the duplicate posting before. Still not used to posting images here.
Allen
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If you want more inspiration:
http://inicia.es/de/conocer/Ciudades/Ciudad_Real/puerta2.JPG
http://www.arteguias.com/ciudadreal/ciudadreal10.jpg
The door (now in a Museum) of the medieval Synagogue of Ciudad Real (Spain). It's the only thing of that building we have
To be honest when I saw the doors and windows of your building inmediately come to my mind this door of Ciudad Real.
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Thanks!
My wife and I travelled to Toledo to see the synagogue there. You're right, of course, and what many people identify as "synagogue architecture" is Moorish.
My client for this project are from Eastern Europe, the Ukraine, I think, and like all Hasidic groups take their name from their original home. In this case, Skvira.
Those doors are quite beautiful. The wooden ones for this project were made in Israel,by Bukharan woodcarvers using wood imported from Africa (not much wood in Israel). This project, my third for the building, expandds the right hand side and enlarges, heightens the front.
Allen
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I am catholic, but all the spanish have jew ancestors and I am proud of that (unfortunately almost all of them were forced to conversion, you know, the spanish inquisition
). in Ciudad Real there were a lot of them, my city today is horrible with modern flats and buildings, but in the medieval period had one of the biggest jew colonies of Spain. It appears in a book of Noah Gordon.In Toledo there are two synagogues, I have been in one of them, "Santa Maria la Blanca", white and elegant. It is very beautifoul.
http://www.leyendasdetoledo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=132&Itemid=111
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=sinagoga+blanca&m=text
But I believe that your wife was in the another one because is the most famous, the one I have never been, the "Sinagoga del Tránsito".
http://www.museosefardi.net/pagina4.html
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sinagoga%20tr%C3%A1nsito&w=all
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pichuneke,
We did not get to see Santa Maria la Blanca. A pity. I suppose we will now have to return to Spain to see it. (grin).
There was a rich Jewish history in Spain before the Inquisition. We managed to see some of it not only in Toledo but in other cities, especially Cordoba. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful Mezquita, exploring the old Jewish quarter was delightful.
Thank you for your kind words. Your English is far better than my Spanish.
Allen
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