The new community center to be erected by the Congregation Hope of Israel at Gerard avenue and 161st street, the Bronx, will be strikingly Jewish in architecture and design, officials of the synagogue said today.
Abraham Goodman, architect and consultant on Jewish temple and synagogue structures, is planning a unique and outstanding building.
In the design for the building, the Menorah and Shofar motifs, as well as seven panels depicting the Biblical history of the creation of the world, will be used. The insignia and standards of the twelve tribes of Israel will be engraved on columns on both sides of the central doors.
The building will contain a gymnasium and showers, class rooms, auditorium and a synagogue.
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