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	Temple Sinai URL: http://sinairochester.org/aboutus/tour/ ODP description: This synagogue in Rochester, New York, has a remarkable tentlike sanctuary with glass wall and ceiling, designed by James Johnson. Photographs, description and explanation of the symbolism from the official site. Page title: Temple Sinai, Rochester, NY - Tour
	Images of the B'nai Amoona Synagogue URL: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/missouri/stlouis/temple/mendelsohn.html ODP description: Photographs and text on the first US synagogue designed by modernist synagogue architect Eric Mendelsohn. Page title: Images of the B'nai Amoona Synagogue (Center of Contemporary Arts) by Mendelsohn Page description: Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of architecture and sculpture from Prehistoric to Post-modern art. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.
	Star in the East URL: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3575/1273_213/99215196/p1/article.jhtml ODP description: Reprinted article from "Architectural Review" about the post-Holocaust Renaissance in German synagogue architecture. Page title: Star in the east: paradoxically, Jewish communities in Germany are now thriving and recent new synagogues, such as this one in Chemnitz, also encompass social and cultural aspects Architectural Review, The - Find Articles
	Constructing Reconstructionism URL: http://www.adatshalom.net/constructing.html ODP description: An illustrated, scholarly article by Laura Hartman of the University of Virginia, on the relationship of theology and architecture at the Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue in Bethesda, Maryland, built in 1999-2001 to the designs of Robert Schwartz and Keith Peoples. Page title: Constructing Reconstructionism: Theology Expressed in Architecture at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue

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