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Old Posted Nov 12, 2019, 3:13 AM
Noir_Noir Noir_Noir is offline
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The synagogue's architecture is Spartan Functional Military in style.


"In 1940, the growing congregation raised funds and began excavating to build a bigger facility. But as World War II intensified,
construction materials were diverted to the war effort, and the project halted. The hole in the ground yawned open for years. When
the war ended, congregants were keen to resume building, but hiring an architect would be costly. So the synagogue’s then‐president
asked his stepson, a returning Navy veteran, to take over the job. The young engineer had been a Seabee in the South Pacific, part of
a construction battalion charged with building military bases to house the U.S. invasion forces. Could building a synagogue be so diff-
erent? Turns out not — the Seabee dug through his old blueprints from the war and, with a few modifications, drew up a Spartan but
functional plan. Mishkon’s downstairs social hall is easily recognizable as a standard mess hall and the sanctuary above it as a military
base theater."


https://www.mishkon.org/history
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