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Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue (Cairo), Shaar Ha Shamayim Synagogue
Shaar Hashamayim (also Shaar Hashomayim, "Gate of Heaven") may refer to: Synagogues Canada * Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Montreal * Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue (Sudbury) Egypt * Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue (Cairo) Gibraltar * Great Synagogue (Gibraltar), known as ''Kahal Kadosh Sha'ar Hashamayim'' Madeira * Synagogue of Funchal, Funchal, Madeira, called ''Shaar Hashamayim'' United Kingdom * Bevis Marks Synagogue, London, also known as ''Kehal Shaar Hashamayim'' United States * Congregation Ahawath Chesed Shaar Hashomayim (Manhattan), also known as the Central Synagogue Indonesia * Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue (Tondano) Yeshivas * Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva ( he, ישיבת שער השמים, lit., "Gate of Heaven") is an Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi yeshiva in Jerusalem dedicated to the study of the kabbalah, kabbalistic teachings of the Rabbi Isaac Luria, Arizal (Rabbi Isaac Lu ..., Jerusalem, a yeshiva specializing in the study of kabbalah See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim () is an Ashkenazi synagogue in Westmount, Quebec. Incorporated in 1846, it is the oldest traditional Ashkenazi synagogue in Canada and the largest traditional synagogue in Canada. History Former building of Shaar Hashomayim on McGill College Avenue Congregation Shaar Hashomayim was founded by a group of English, German and Polish Jews, who had previously attended the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. The Congregation originally rented space on Saint James Street (now rue Saint-Jacques). The first synagogue was built on Saint Constant Street (now rue de Bullion) in the Mile End in 1859. A new synagogue was built on McGill College Avenue between 1885 and 1886 at a cost of $40,000. In 1920, the Congregation purchased land on Kensington Avenue in Westmount. The cornerstone was laid by president Lyon Cohen in 1921, and the synagogue was dedicated on September 17, 1922. Herman Abramowitz served as rabbi from 1902 to 1947, and Wilfred Shuchat as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue (Sudbury)
Shaar Hashomayim is a synagogue in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It was dedicated on April 24, 1960. That year, the congregation joined the United Synagogues of America, the chief organ of Conservative Judaism. Approximately 30 families attend the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue. It has 25 active families. Building Exterior The Shar Hashomayim synagogue is a post-modern-style building. Its exterior is composed of a simple façade constructed of brown brick with white trim. The exterior has a large sculpture constructed out of seven concrete pillars that represents the menorah. The green space surrounding the building backs onto a woodland, as well as a ravine. The view is guided towards the sky because the building appears to be horizontal, but this is contrasted with the repetition of vertical windows at the front . On the exterior of the building, there is a dedication stone that marks the legacy of the Jewish Community. Interior The building has seven thin vertical wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue (Cairo)
The Sha'ar HaShamayim Synagogue (lit. ''Gate of Heaven'') is located in Cairo, Egypt. The synagogue was also known as ''Temple Ismailia'' and the ''Adly Street Synagogue''. Its long-time leader was Chief Rabbi Chaim Nahum. In 2008, the synagogue marked its 100th anniversary.Stern, YoavCairo Synagogue marks 100 years of grandeur and decline ''Haaretz'', 04-11-2007. Retrieved on 2011-03-22. The synagogue was built in a style evoking ancient Egyptian temples, and was once the largest building on the boulevard. When the synagogue opened in 1899, there was a vibrant Jewish community in Cairo. The last time the synagogue was full was in the 1960s. Today the community numbers 6 members, most of them older women. Although it is considered a Sephardic synagogue, many Ashkenazi Jews were members of the congregation and contributed to its construction and upkeep. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Synagogue (Gibraltar)
The Great Synagogue of Gibraltar, also known as Kahal Kadosh Sha'ar HaShamayim (), is located in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, and was the first synagogue on the Iberian Peninsula to operate since the expulsions from Spain and Portugal in 1492 and 1497 respectively. History Sha'ar HaShamayim Synagogue was founded in 1724 by Isaac Nieto from London. It was inaugurated in 1724 on a plot of land granted to the Jews by the then Governor of Gibraltar, Richard Kane. Having been rebuilt several times, the present building largely dates from 1812 and shares features in common with the parent Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam) (1675) and Bevis Marks Synagogue (1701). The facade of the two-and-a-half-story, domestic-scale building features round-arched windows flanking a round-arched doorway.Sharman Kadish, ''Jewish Heritage in Gibraltar: An Architectural Guide,'' Spire books, Reading, 2007, p. 42 Gallery File:Door of the Great Synagogue, Gibraltar.jpg, Main entrance to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synagogue Of Funchal
The Building at 33 Rua do Carmo is an historical building located at 33 Rua do Carmo, Funchal, Madeira. It has been suggested that it could have been projected to be a synagogue. History Jews from Morocco arrived in 1819 and set themselves up in the cloth and wine trades. The Abudarham family (originally from Gibraltar) were involved in the Madeira wine industry from the early 1860s onwards. Rabbi David Zaguri became its spiritual leader in 1857. Another period of immigration followed in the 20th century, with the arrival of refugees from the First and Second World Wars. The Jewish community also grew due to the Evacuation of the Gibraltarian civilian population during World War II to Madeira, which included a number of Jews, some of which are buried in the Jewish Cemetery of Funchal. Tito Benady, a historian on Gibraltar Jewry, noted that when some 200 Jews from Gibraltar were evacuated as non combatants to Funchal, Madeira, at the start of World War II, they found a Jewish ceme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeira
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Bevis Marks Synagogue
Bevis Marks Synagogue, officially Qahal Kadosh Sha'ar ha-Shamayim ( he, קָהָל קָדוֹשׁ שַׁעַר הַשָׁמַיִם, "Holy Congregation Gate of Heaven"), is the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom in continuous use. It is located off Bevis Marks, Aldgate, in the City of London. The synagogue was built in 1701 and is affiliated to London's historic Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community. It is a Grade I listed building. It is the only synagogue in Europe which has held regular services continuously for more than 300 years. It is currently threatened by the development of large office buildings that would destroy its historic setting and block its natural light. History Construction The origins of the community date from an influx to London of crypto-Jews, or so called Marranos, from Spain and Portugal, mostly via the growing Sephardi Jewish community in Amsterdam, in the early seventeenth century. These Jews began practising their religion openly once it b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Ahawath Chesed Shaar Hashomayim
Central Synagogue (Congregation Ahawath Chesed Shaar Hashomayim; yi, צענטראַל-סינאַגאָגע) is a notable Reform synagogue located at 652 Lexington Avenue, at the corner of East 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1870–1872 and was designed by Henry Fernbach in the Moorish Revival style as a copy of Budapest's Dohány Street Synagogue. It has been in continuous use by a congregation longer than any other in the state of New York, except Congregation Berith Sholom in Troy, New York, and is among the oldest existing synagogue buildings in the United States. The building was designated a New York City landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It was then designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975. and History The Ahawath Chesed congregation was founded in 1846 on Ludlow Street in Manhattan by German-speaking Jews from Bohemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue (Tondano)
Sha'ar Hashayamim Synagoge (Hebrew: שער השמים ("Sha'ar Hashamayim", "Gerbang Surga" in Indonesian)) also known as Beth Knesset Sha'ar Hashamayim or Kahal Kadosh Sha'ar Hashamayim is an Orthodox Jewish Synagogue with Sephardi tradition (Spanish and Portuguese) located in Tondano, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, which was founded in 2003 and inaugurated in 2019. Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue is the second synagogue in Indonesia after another synagogue in the city of Surabaya, which was built in 1939 by the Iraqi Jewish community, and abolished at 2013. Sha'ar Hashamayim is the only Orthodox Synagogue in Indonesia that is still operating today. Gallery Shaar Hashamayim2-01.jpg, Synagogue interior Sinagoga tondano.jpg, Mikvah building (left), Synagogue building (right) Gulungan taurat sinagoga.jpg, Torah scroll, gift from Ben Judah's Jewish family Peresmian sinagoga.jpg, Synagogue inauguration by local government, 2019 Pembacaan Taurat.jpg, Recitation of ''Sefer Torah'' by C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva
Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva ( he, ישיבת שער השמים, lit., "Gate of Heaven") is an Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi yeshiva in Jerusalem dedicated to the study of the kabbalah, kabbalistic teachings of the Rabbi Isaac Luria, Arizal (Rabbi Isaac Luria). It is famous for its student body of advanced kabbalists — many of them rosh yeshiva, roshei yeshiva and Torah scholars — as well as beginning and intermediate scholars who study both the revealed and concealed Torah. Name The name of the yeshiva was taken from the Torah passage in which Jacob dreams of a Jacob's ladder, ladder stretching from earth to heaven. After he awakens from his dream, Jacob exclaims, "This is none other than the House of God, and this is the Gate of Heaven (''Shaar Hashamayim'')!" (Book of Genesis, Genesis 28:19). Origins The impetus to found Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva came from a dream experienced by two noteworthy Jerusalem rabbis on the same night in 1906. Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach, auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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