Moorish Revival Architecture

Synagogues are some of the most beautiful sites of Jewish heritage and culture in the world. From Tunisia to Mumbai to New York — and from Sephardi to Ashkenazi to Mizrahi congregations — these synagogues are jaw-droppingly beautiful. There are Stars of David stained glass, elaborate candelabras, and stunning bimahs. There’s Moorish revival to art […]

This once abandoned Italian castle located between Florence and Arezzo in Italy, has a fascinating history with origins tracing to ancient Rome

I have always had a fascination and a love for the far east architecture and styles, and apparently so did the Victorians. The Moorish revi...

These three reproductions of the structure's floor plans, on display at Longwood, clearly show the octagonal shape of the house and the intended use for the various rooms.

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Central Synagogue, designed by Henry Fernbach in 1872, is the oldest building in New York State in continuous use by a single Jewish congregation, Congregation Ahawath Chesed, a German Reform congregation founded in 1846 on the Lower East Side by Jews from Bohemia. Dominated by two onion-shapped, green-copper-domed octagonal towers rising 122 feet, meant to be reminiscent of Solomon's Temple, Central Synagogue reflects Moorish Islamic Revival form reflecting the heritage of Jews in Moorish…