Women’s gallery
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As in all traditional (Orthodox) synagogues, there are separate seating areas for men and women. In most New York immigrant synagogues this means that men are seated on the main sanctuary floor and women are seated upstairs in galleries, that cover two or three sides of the building interior. At KKJ the gallery, shown here in a view looking south, also serves as the congregation’s museum.
As in all traditional (Orthodox) synagogues, there are separate seating areas for men and women. In most New York immigrant synagogues this means that men are seated on the main sanctuary floor and…
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Queens College Special Collections and Hellenic American Project
circa 1999-2010
Vincent Giordano Collection on the Greek-Jewish Community in New York City and Ioannina, Greece
Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Lower East Side, (New York, N.Y.)
Giordano, Vincent