synagogue
IPA: sˈɪnʌgɔg
noun
- A place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.
- A congregation of Jews or Samaritans for the purpose of worship or religious study.
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Examples of "synagogue" in Sentences
- He is the caretaker of the synagogue.
- The only active synagogue in the town.
- The Jewish man goes of to pray in the synagogue.
- In 1561, the synagogue was attacked by the burglers.
- I removed the section on the Bimah in the synagogue.
- The tercentenary of the synagogue was celebrated in 2001.
- In 1850 the Synagogue was redecorated and in 1876 renovated.
- The presentation is inspired by the former interior of the synagogue.
- A number of plaques adorn the exterior and interior of the synagogue.
- However, the hospital on the premises of the synagogue was in operation.
- I could not think of a Jewish analogy except that I would rather have been in synagogue than smelling bodies burning.
- It's a sacredness that reminds us why the word synagogue in Greek and beit knesset in Hebrew were chosen by Jews many centuries ago.
- And in regard to the question as a whole, we must not overlook the fact that in our sources the term synagogue is never applied to Christians.”
- The crowd began to disperse but unfortunately they then lingered in neighboring streets, including Dohány utca where the famous Budapest synagogue is situated.
- Located in a dark cemetery, which they must descend to enter, the synagogue is actually the inner chamber of a claustrophobic tomb that leaves the congregants essentially brain dead.
- If a synagogue is attacked, I guarantee that within minutes the airwaves will be filled with insinuating voices insisting that the “root cause” of the crime was a rational anger at the behaviour of Israel or the Jewish diaspora.
- It seems probable that the council was the larger tribunal of twenty-three, which sat in every city, and that under the term synagogue we are to understand a smaller court, probably that of the ten judges mentioned in the Talmud.