Temple B'nai Shalom (Sons or Children of Peace) is a synagogue in Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi (not to be confused with another historic and architecturally significant Jewish temple of the same name on the National Register of Historic Places in Huntsville, Alabama).

History

The congregation formed in 1894.[1] A synagogue building was erected at Chickasaw and South Church Streets in 1896. The congregation deconsecrated[2] and donated the building to the Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society[3] to be used as a county history museum in 2009.

Architecture

The white clapboard building is notable for its Moorish Revival Horseshoe arch windows, and for a truncated tower that "references the porthole of an Islamic minaret" with a slender Horseshoe arch window.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Turitz, Leo; Turitz, Evelyn (1983). Jews in Early Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 113. ISBN 9780878051786.
  2. ↑ "About Us". LCHGS. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  3. ↑ laura (2016-07-19). "Lincoln County Historical Museum". Visit Brookhaven Mississippi. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  4. ↑ Stolzman, Henry; Stolzman, Daniel (2004). Synagogue Architecture in America: Faith, Spirit & Identity (Illustrated ed.). Images Publishing. p. 129. ISBN 9781864700749.

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