An Army mine detection crew will sweep the foundations of a Protestant church here for a missing cornerstone of a synagogue destroyed by fire nearly ten years ago.
The cornerstone contains a metal box with records of the original Congregation of Israel Synagogue which was razed in 1947. The site was sold to a Protestant congregation which subsequently built its church there, and a new synagogue was built elsewhere in the town. Rather than remove random sections of the new church foundation searching for the missing cornerstone, it was decided to use mine detection equipment to locate it and recover the documents.
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