Constructed of concrete block and of brick salvaged from the previous temple on the site, which was a converted Methodist church, this temple has a folded plate roof with triangular clerestory windows and is capped by a metal cupola supporting a Star of David, a shape that inspired the building’s hexagonal plan. Flat-roofed entrances and support spaces wrap the sanctuary to the sides and rear.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "TEMPLE B’NAI ISRAEL", [Columbus, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR20.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 183-183.
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