A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 424
e tliere was a sci)arate court for women),were invariably rigidly followed. The exteriors of tli(^ ancient synagogues ap-])ear to have possessed but little arcdiitecturalinterest, and of interior decoration, as we under-stand it, there was none. Renuiins of syna-gogues found in Galilee show that a… … Syn.^gogue, Fig. I.: Temple Beth-el, New York City; 1802. the congregation, either in front or at the sides,and before it hung the perjietual lamp. In the centre of the building, also raisedabove the level of the floor, was a desk fromwhich tlie law was read aloud. The women were always separated…
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