Buildings Evoking The Temple
A number of churches and synagogues have been designed to evoke the Temple. One is the Escorial Palace Monastery in Spain (1563–1584), by architect Juan Bautista de Toledo. The central axis reveals a pattern of courtyard, sanctuary, Holy of Holies. The Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor, New York was built in 1844 by architect Minard Lafever as a replica of the Temple. The 1906 building of Temple Israel (Boston, Massachusetts) was intended to be a replica of the Temple. The Church of St. Polyeuctus in Constantinople was built with the precise proportions given in the Bible for the Temple of Solomon.
The Book of Mormon claims that some of the Jews who fled from Jerusalem (shortly before the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC) fled to America, where they built a new temple "after the manner of the Temple of Solomon." All Mormon temples are evocations of the Temple of Solomon. The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is oriented towards Jerusalem and the large basin used as a baptismal font is mounted on the backs of twelve oxen, as was the brazen sea of Solomon's Temple. The Cardston Alberta, Laie Hawaii, and Mesa Arizona Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are all designed after the style of the second temple built by King Herod.
The 1909 building of the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv, designed by Joseph Barsky, was intended to evoke Solomon's Temple following a widely circulated reconstruction of the temple by Charles Chipiez. The Mishkan Shilo synagogue i in Shilo, Mateh Binyamin is designed as a replica of the Tabernacle.
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