Sentence examples for stone synagogue from inspiring English sources

The cavernous stone synagogue drew 1,200 families in the 1980s; it claims about 260 now.

On late fall days, all these decades later, I want to go back to that Philadelphia neighborhood, and to walk again on streets teeming with people to that tall, imposing stone synagogue where the rabbi's voice sounded like I imagined God's would.

As an officiant, I have celebrated weddings at the top of a mountain, in a public park, in a charming stone chapel, in synagogues and churches, even in a family laundromat.

Spotlights pick out the bimah and crumbled stone walls of the synagogue in an otherwise black room.

They also recall the customs of elderly chuetas who traced their fingers along the stone remnants of the former synagogue and surreptitiously kissed their fingertips.

The first couple also placed a white flower and a small stone on stars outside the synagogue that had been erected in memory of the victims — a somber moment punctuated by occasional shouts from protesters.

After it was found, a similar stone was unearthed in a synagogue from the Byzantine period in nearby Horvat Kur, and that, too, was decorated with what appear to be schematic depictions of Temple iconography.

By tradition, it was founded 2,500 years ago by priests fleeing the destruction of King Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, and a grotto in the synagogue contains a stone that is said to be from the temple.

For months, a dark blue armour-plated police van has been parked outside Sofia's only mosque, the 16th-century Banya Bashi, in the city centre, a stone's throw from the synagogue and Catholic and eastern orthodox cathedrals.

However most of the deterioration came in the last three years, when snow got in and caused cracks". The foundation stone of the Oriental-style synagogue was laid in 1854.

Mr. Reiner noted that, though there could be only one Temple, the stone would have brought a suggestion of it to the synagogue in Magdala.