Temple B'nai Shalom (Brookhaven, Mississippi)

Temple B'nai Shalom (Sons or Children of Peace) is a synagogue in Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi (not to be confused with another historic and architecturally significant Jewish temple of the same name on the National Register of Historic Places in Huntsville, Alabama).

History

The congregation formed in 1894.[1] A synagogue building was erected at Chickasaw and South Church Streets in 1896. Although still a synagogue, B'nai Shalom holds only occasional services.[2]

Architecture

The white clapboard building is notable for its Moorish Revival Horseshoe arch windows, and for a truncated tower that "references the porthole of an Islamic minaret" with a slender Horseshoe arch window.[3]

References

Turitz, Leo; Turitz, Evelyn (1983). Jews in Early Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 113. ISBN 9780878051786.
Gordon, Mark W. "AJHS | Rediscovering Jewish Infrastructure". American Jewish Historical Society.
Stolzman, Henry; Stolzman, Daniel (2004). Synagogue Architecture in America: Faith, Spirit & Identity (Illustrated ed.). Images Publishing. p. 129. ISBN 9781864700749.

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[1] Turitz, Leo; Turitz, Evelyn (1983). Jews in Early Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 113. ISBN 9780878051786.

[2] Gordon, Mark W. "AJHS | Rediscovering Jewish Infrastructure". American Jewish Historical Society.

[3] Stolzman, Henry; Stolzman, Daniel (2004). Synagogue Architecture in America: Faith, Spirit & Identity (Illustrated ed.). Images Publishing. p. 129. ISBN 9781864700749.