Sentence examples for synagogue floor from inspiring English sources

It is assumed that women listened to the prayers from the bakery, through grates cut into the synagogue floor long since covered over.

Mr. Netzer also dug up the oldest known synagogue near Jericho as well as a Hasmonean winter palace with gardens and pools, and led excavations in Zippori in northern Israel, where a well-known mosaic synagogue floor was found.

RAMLA, Israel — The men and boys offered their prayers in a full-throated chant, raising their arms in supplication and prostrating themselves, barefoot, on the plush red carpet lining the synagogue floor.

Despite the quiet, I decide not to sleep on the synagogue floor — a large sign warns against it — and avoid an area where other travelers have camped out like 1960s Berkeley squatters, their bags surrounding them.

An excavation at Zippori in northern Israel yielded a well-known mosaic synagogue floor.

Yet, as the excavations carried out by Israeli archaeologists in recent decades demonstrate, the designers of mosaic patterns on synagogue floors drew on the same figural repertory, handled in the same style, as those who planned church floors.

Pilgrims lit candles in the sanctuary and placed eggs covered with handwritten wishes in a cave dug into the synagogue's floor.

Remnants of the synagogue's original floor and walls are left to speak for themselves.

Some council officials, who work in offices upstairs from the ground-floor synagogue, "don't give the courtesy of a good morning," Rabbi Wohlgelernter said.

You go with Zayde on a sleepy summer Shabbes to the shul, to the prayer-book musty tenement ground-floor synagogue, sit hour after hour and daven where shown, pray but not know what for, glibly match the right sounds to the printed letters, as you were taught to do on the East Side.

We're keeping the synagogue on the ground floor and building three loft apartments above.