Main entry:

Siry, Joseph, 1956- author.

Title & Author:

Beth Sholom Synagogue : Frank Lloyd Wright and modern religious architecture / Joseph M. Siry.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
© 2012

Description:

xxvi, 705 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans, plates ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 679-693) and index.
Introduction -- Unitarian views of Judaism, and Adler and Sullivan's synagogues -- Rev. William Norman Guthrie and Wright's steel cathedral -- Wright and the ideal theater to 1932 -- Annie M. Pfeiffer Chapel at Florida Southern College, 1938-41 : modernist theology and regional identity -- Community Christian Church, 1939-42 -- First Unitarian Society of Madison, 1946-52 -- Beth Sholom, Rabbi Mortimer Cohen, and postwar synagogue architecture -- Rabbi Cohen's vision and Wright's original design for Beth Sholom Synagogue -- Beth Sholom Synagogue : design development and construction -- Reception of Beth Sholom and its place in Wright's late work -- Epilogue Beth Sholom Synagogue since 1959.

Summary:

This book examines the design, construction, and reception of Beth Sholom Synagogue, and its place in relation to Frank Lloyd Wright's other religious architecture.

Resources:
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Table of contents

ISBN:

9780226761404 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0226761401 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Wright, Frank L.
Beth Sholom Synagogue (Elkins Park, Pa.)
Synagogues Pennsylvania Elkins Park.
Synagogue architecture Pennsylvania Elkins Park.
Jewish architecture.
Architecture juive.
Synagogue architecture
Synagogues
Synagoge.
Pennsylvania Elkins Park
Beth-Sholom-Synagoge Elkins Park Gardens, Pa.
Elkins Park (Pa.); Beth Sholom Synagogue.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275950
Call No.: BIB 210445
Status: Available