Building
The 13,000 or 18,000 square foot steel frame structure has cinder block walls and is covered in stucco. The interior was not fully finished in time for the New Year, and it was planned that the concrete floors would be covered with wood and the walls with marble in time for the Simchat Torah holiday three weeks later. The structure seats between 2,300 and 4,350 and has a total capacity of 7,000 people.
The building was named after Aaron's great-great-grandfather Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, known as "The Yetev Lev", after the name of a book of Torah commentary he published. Zalman's supporters derisively referred to the synagogue as "the Home Depot shul".
Read more about this topic: Kehilas Yetev Lev D'Satmar
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