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Obj. ID: 34171
Jewish Architecture  B’nai Jacob (old) Building in Montreal, Canada

© Documentation project of Barbara Weiser, Photographer: Weiser, Barbara, 2003

The building was eventually sold in the 1960s to the Collège Français.

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Name/Title
B’nai Jacob (old) Building in Montreal | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
1919
Active dates
until 1960
Reconstruction dates
Artist/ Maker
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Origin
Historical Origin
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Location
Canada | Quebec | Montreal
| 172 Fairmount O.
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Documented by CJA
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
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Direction/Location
Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
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Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Sources

http://imjm.ca/location/1355

Sack, B.G. “A Shul that Reminds us of the Pioneers of Yesterday: Our own B’nai Jacob Shul, a Chapter of the Jewish Past.” Keneder Adler [Montreal] 9 Sept. 1951.

Sack, B.G. “Our Old Orthodox Shuls: What will become of years of progress of these shuls, monuments of our past that are now disappearing.” Keneder Adler [Montreal] 19 Oct. 1958.

Bernard Figler. “The Story of Two Congregations-Chevra Kadisha and Benai Jacob”, P97/02:Photocopy of typescript of synagogue history, Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee Archives. (c. 1960).

Tauben, Sara Ferdman. "Aspirations and Adaptations: Immigrant Synagogues of Montreal, 1880s-1945." Masters Thesis. Concordia University, 2004.

Tauben, Sara Ferdman. Traces of the Past: Montreal's Early Synagogues. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 2011.
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