6481 x 4321 px | 54,9 x 36,6 cm | 21,6 x 14,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
8 giugno 2010
Ubicazione:
12 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA
Altre informazioni:
The Eldridge Street Synagogue is one of the earliest synagogue buildings erected in the United States by Eastern European Jews that survives. It opened at 12 Eldridge Street in New York's Lower East Side in 1887 serving Congregation Kahal Adath Jeshurun. The building was designed by the architects Peter and Francis William Herter. When completed, the synagogue was reviewed in the local press. Writers marveled at the imposing Moorish Revival building, with its 70-foot-high vaulted ceiling, magnificent stained-glass rose windows, elaborate brass fixtures and hand-stenciled walls. On December 2, 2007, after 20 years of renovation work that cost US$20 million, and that was overseen by the non-profit Museum at Eldridge Street and Walter Sedovic Architects the synagogue reopened to the public.
