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The Ohel Jakob synagogue (from , President of Zentralrat Der Juden In Deutschland . The building is part of the new Jewish Center consisting of the synagogue, the Jewish Museum Munich and a community center. BUILDING The synagogue was designed by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch who were awarded the contract after an in Dresden . The Topping Out ceremony was celebrated on October 25, 2005. The building is a cubic structure of Travertine stone topped by a glass cube. The glass roof represents a tent (or Ohel ), symbolizing Moses ' 40-year-journey through the desert. The main portal was manufactured in Budapest and features Hebrew letters depicting the 10 Commandments . The interior walls are paneled with warm cedar decorated with golden psalms. It seats 550 worshippers. It cost about US$72 million to build and funding was provided by the city of Munich, the state of Bavaria and Munich's Jewish community. 9.Nov.2006 Forbes.com - Jews Celebrate New Munich Synagogue Munich's original main synagogue was destroyed in June 1938 and stood a few blocks away from the new synagogue. In 2003, German authorities uncovered a plot by a group of Neo-Nazi s to bomb the ceremony to lay the cornerstone for the building. Security concerns also led to the decision to house a memorial to Jews killed in the Holocaust in an underground tunnel between the synagogue and the neighboring Jewish museum. Zurück im Herzen Münchens REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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