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BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION

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1965–1967, Biggs, Weir, Neal and Chastain. 5315 Old Canton Rd.

With its tent-like roof over a central worship space, this precast concrete, parallelogram-shaped building designed by Edward F. Neal, evokes the tents that the Israelites used while wandering in the wilderness. A cantilevered canopy shelters the glazed entrance, flanked by long walls of concrete piers infilled with blond brick. This, the fourth synagogue for a congregation established in 1860, became a target for the Ku Klux Klan soon after it opened because of Rabbi Perry Nussbaum’s civil rights activism. The KKK bombed the building on September 18, 1967, damaging Nuss-baum’s office, and on November 21, they bombed his house at 3410 Old Canton Road. No one was injured in either attack.

Nearby, at 5400 Old Canton, the five-pavilion tan brick St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (1964) was also the work of the Biggs firm.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION", [Jackson, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-JM64.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 269-269.

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