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Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy SA-SIG

The Old Synagogue
Gardens, Cape Town

 

Editor: Dr Saul Issroff
Copyright © 2000-2005 Saul Issroff, Mike Getz, SAfrica SIG
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URL: http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/synagogues/1/index.htm
Revised: 14 June 2005

 

Two views of the facade of the Old Synagogue may be seen at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/synsa.html
 
 
Source: The Synagogue, Brian de Breffny, ISBN: 0-297 77527-8, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1978. page 151
The first purpose-built synagogue in South Africa, the Old Synagogue, Cape Town, dedicated in 1863, is a Greek Revival building with a handsome hexastyle Corinthian portico; it now houses a Jewish Museum, [which was] opened in 1958.
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The entrance to the Old Synagogue, viewed from Government Avenue, Gardens
Source: Historical Buildings in South Africa, Désirée Picton-Seymour, ISBN: 0 947458 01 8:
Opened 1863. Designed in the Egyptian style, stone-faced, lotus-flower columns.

 
 

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