One question I've asked in this project is ... What have other groups done.? Have there been other synagogues that have been restored by community groups? How did it turn out; how did they do it?
The obvious example is the Eldridge Synagogue on the Lower East Side of New York City. I have a semi-promotional book that tells the story and all of these fabulously tricked out pictures. Sumptuous scrumptious, larger than life. Like a well turned out air brushed breast.
Here's a few, there is some distortion because two of them were double page spreads.
The book is "Beyond the Facade: Museum at Eldridge."
They started with a large run-down ruin of a synagogue and restored it to its former beauty and beyond. About the same time, that the members of the community were trying to restore the Old Sanctuary.
But they had 20 million dollars along with Brooke Astor fund-raising for them.
The Old Sanctuary was never this grand. But here on the upper left coast, the money wasn't there.
We can admire and appreciate their work.
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