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Student Center, SCAD (B’nai B’rith Jacob Synagogue)

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1907–1909, Hyman W. Witcover; 2002–2006 rear addition and renovation. 112 Montgomery St.

Congregation B’nai B’rith was founded in 1861 to serve the needs of Eastern European Jews worshipping in the Ashkenazic tradition. After meeting for five years in the Georgia Hussars’ armory hall on Wright Square, the congregation built a wooden synagogue on the present site, which was replaced in the early twentieth century by the current red brick, Moorish Revival synagogue, characterized by the prominent use of horseshoe arches. A new, modernist synagogue, B’nai B’rith Jacob, was built in 1963 about three miles to the south on Abercorn Street, a move that depopulated the historic district’s Orthodox Jewish community. The vacated building on the present site then served as a church before it became the Student Center of the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Student Center, SCAD (B’nai B’rith Jacob Synagogue)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-5.11.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 98-98.

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