London rejects 48-story skyscraper threatening UK’s oldest synagogue
Bevis Marks is the only synagogue in Europe that has been operational for 300 years, serving the Sephardi descendants of Iberian Jews who fled.
LONDON’S BEVIS Marks Synagogue, founded in 1701 by crypto-Jews who had fled from Spain and Portugal via the Netherlands, is considered British Jewry’s cathedral house of prayer with the pomp of circumstance. The synagogue is illuminated by 240 candles placed in its enormous brass chandeliers.(photo credit: BEVIS MARKS SYNAGOGUE HERITAGE FOUNDATION)ByGIL ZOHARUpdated:
