Figure 1
The choreography of a Saturday morning synagogue service (Ashkenazi).
Figure 2
The typical layout of the ritual objects in a synagogue including the Bima (A) The Ark (B) The Amod (C) and, (D) The Eternal Light.
Figure 3
Banister Fletcher, ‘Tree of Architecture’.
Figure 4
An impression of the Tabernacle found in Cynthia Pearl Maus, The Old Testament and the Fine Arts.
Figure 5
The New London Synagogue.
Figure 6
The exterior of the New London Synagogue.
Figure 7
The ceiling of the New London Synagogue.
Figure 8
The exterior of the Bradford Synagogue.
Figure 9
The Ark of the Bradford Synagogue.
Figure 10
The ceiling of the Bradford Synagogue.
Figure 11
Delacroix’s La Mort de Sardanapale.
Figure 12
The exterior of the West London Synagogue.
Figure 13
The interior of the West London Synagogue.
Figure 14
An illustration of the West London Synagogue from The Graphic, 1889.
Figure 15
An illustration from The Building News depicting the West London Synagogue, 1890.
Figure 16
A plan of the West London Synagogue showing the revised position of the Bima, labelled as the ‘Reading Desk’, and reorientation of the seating.
Figure 17
The Exterior of the New West End Synagogue.
Figure 18
Decorations atop the Ark in the New West End Synagogue.
Figure 19
Detail from the upper gallery in the New West End Synagogue.
Figure 20
Detail from the Ark in the New West End Synagogue.
Figure 21
Interior of the New West End Synagogue.
Figure 22
A synagogue ablaze in Germany on Kristallnacht in November 1938, from the Yad Vashem Archive.