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Heichal Shlomo
Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Heichal Shlomo (Hebrew: היכל שְׁלֹמֹה, romanized: Heikhal Shlomo, lit. 'Palace of Solomon'; hence Hekhal of Solomon) is a building, which houses a synagogue, Jewish museum and teacher's college, located opposite the Leonardo Plaza Hotel, on King George Street, Jerusalem, Israel.
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The building is the former seat of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel until the 1990s. The building also serves as the Jerusalem Campus of Herzog College for their Masters in Education program,[1] and houses the Jewish Heritage Center and Museum of Jewish Art.
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History
The building was erected between 1953 and 1958, following plans by German-born architect Alexander Friedman.
The building has housed the Jewish Heritage Center and Jewish Art Museum since 1992.
The Renanim Synagogue was transferred from Padua together with its 18th-century Torah ark and bimah, and decorated with modern stained glass windows. The Entrance Gallery displays temporary exhibitions of Israeli artists. The museum displaying traditional and modern Jewish art in permanent and temporary exhibitions is named in honour of British Jewish philanthropist, Sir Isaac Wolfson.
Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik, the rabbi of Brisk, strongly discouraged entering the building, saying "every stone there is impure".[2]
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI paid a courtesy visit to Heichal Shlomo, where he met with the two Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem.[3]
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Gallery
Mordechai Ish-Shalom and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi standing across from Heichal Shlomo, 1959
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