"Historical Archs"

Allenby st. - Tel Aviv - Israel - 2006

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"The Big Synagogue" is one of the impressive buildings that dot Tel Aviv and is also one of the oldest Synagogues in Tel Aviv. It's corner stone was laid on the 10th of November 1921 at 110 Allenby st. with the honor presence of personas such as: Meir Dizzingoff (the first Mayor of Tel Aviv) and Menachem Osishkin (one of the Zionist organization’s leaders). Only at 1928 the work was finished after numerous stalls due to lack of finance and over time this impressive synagogue have gone through some renovation in the shape of the added archs and internal design changes. Prior to the Independent war an armament stash (“SLIK”) was hidden in the attic and on the roof and was discovered by a surprise inspection held by the British Mandate at that time.
Today the Synagogue is sadly quite neglected (externally) and at night it seemed to me like an old gothic relic that it’s features maintain it’s impressive stand.

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