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Beth Sholom Congregation is a Conservative synagogue located in the Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. It is the only synagogue designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. ''Beth Sholom'' is Hebrew for House of Peace. The building has been called a startling, translucent, modernist evocation of an ancient temple, transposed to a Philadelphia suburb by Frank Lloyd Wright.〔Joseph M. Siry, ''Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture'' (University of Chicago Press, 2011)〕 In 2007, the building was named a National Historic Landmark: "Beth Sholom Synagogue ... is a new National Historic Landmark because of its significance in the history of American architecture. The glazed glass pyramidal tower, built in the 1950s, reflects two dominant metaphors—the tent and the mountain—to convey the sense of a collective sacredness. It is nationally significant as one of Wright's most important commissions during his long and productive career." ==Congregation== The congregation originally established its synagogue in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1919 but was one of the first congregations to move to the suburbs at its present home in the 1950s. ;Rabbis * 1919-1964 - Rabbi Mortimer J. Cohen * 1964-2000 - Aaron Landes * 2000-2003 - Rabbi Gershon Schwartz * 2003-2004 - Rabbi Frederic Kazan (interim) * 2004–present - Rabbi David Glanzberg-Krainin * 2004–present - Rabbi Andrea Merow ;Cantors *1957-1967 - Cantor Seymour Schwartzman *1968-1971 - Cantor Neil Newman *1971-1975 - Cantor Robert H. Albert *1975-2011 - Hazzan David F. Tilman 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beth Sholom Congregation (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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