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A short portfolio
of photographs from the two-day visit of the synagogue course Technion
students and their tutor Architect
Dr. Elias Messinas, to Jerusalem.
The trip included visits
to three synagogues in the Israel Museum, the Italian synagogue
and Museum, the Sephardi synagogues and ruins of the
Hurva and Tifferet Israel in the Old City. The tour included
a short visit to the Western Wall (Kotel HaMaaravi) and the Western
Wall Tunnel (Minheret HaKotel). The tour was concluded at the Yad
Vashem Valley of the Communities at the exhibition Synagogues
of Salonika: Community and Continbuity by Architect Dr. Elias
Messinas, where architectural drawings and scale models of destroyed
synagogues of Salonika are exhibited.
The trip included guided tours, lectures by the tutor and Architect
Sergei Kratsov of the Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem. Guided
by the tutor in sketching
and observing places and buildings, the students spent time sketching,
photographing and experiencing the places that were visited.
The
students spent the night at the Sephardic
Educational Center of Jerusalem, an historic structure which
was built in the beginning of the 20th century on top of the ruins of
the Nea Church (4th century). The turor (architect
Elias Messinas) is currently renovating and remodelling this building.
Two weeks after the tour to Jerusalem, a second site visit took place
in Tel Aviv, to the Cymbalista synagogue at Tel Aviv University
campus, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. The tour included a
special visit to the Beth Hatefutsoth (Diaspora Museum) also
at the Tel Aviv University campus, which among others, has a large collection
of accurate architectural scale models of synagogues of all over
the world on display. The students had the rare opportunity to be offered
a special guided tour to the models section of the museum, by the curator
and deputy-director of the museum, Mr. Joel Cahen.
The tour to Tel Aviv University campus was concluded with a visit to
the retrospective exhibition on architect Erich Mendelsohn, at
the University Gallery. The scale models, photographs and sketches of
Mendelsohn included a number of built and unbuilt synagogues.
View
the presentations (March 4, 2001)
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