(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The New Temple Emanu-El will be dedicated Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. April 16, 17, and 18 with special exercises at the newly completed building. At the first Sabbath Services on Friday. Mr. Henry L. Mayer, President of the Congregation, will receive the Building from Mr. Louis Bloch, Chairman of the Building Committee.
Mayor James Rolph and Rev. C. S. S. Dutton of the First Unitarian Church, will be among the speakers.
The New Temple Emanu-El is one of the most beautiful ecclesiastical buildings in the country. The architects were the late Sylvian Schnaittacher, the firm Bakewell and Brown, with B. R. Maybeck and G. Albert Lansburgh, consulting architects.
The Temple is in the Levantine style of architecture, and is composed of a group of three buildings, the Temple proper, the Administrative Building and the Temple House. When completed, the group of buildings will cost $1,250,000. The Temple House is still in process of construction and will not be completed until 1927. Temple Emanu-El is the oldest Jewish Congregation on the Pacific Coast, having been founded in 1850: it celebrated its 75th Jubilee recently. The officers and Board of Directors are: Mr. Henry L. Mayer. President; Mr. Louis Bloch, Vice-President; Mr. Louis A. Schwabacher, Treasurer; Mr. Berthold Guggenhime, Honorary Secretary: Mrs. Henry Sahlein. Mr. James H. Schwabacher, Mr. John I. Walter, Mr. Emil S. Wagenheim, Mr. J. J. Gottlob, Mr. L W. Hellman, Mr. Daniel E. Koshland, Mrs. Max C. Sloss and Mr. Max Sommer.
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