The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-16

Description Of the Proposed
House Of Worship.
THE MOORISH STYLE ADOPTED.
Plans for the 1smpis OF 0haveth sAoi-
sn-Ths Sanctuary 10 BE
PerSsct work Of Art.

The Hebrew congregation Ohaveth
Sholum will, within month, begin the
erection Of temple which will be hand.
some addition to the city's places Of wor-
ship. 1t will be erected on lot 10 feet
square on the corner of Eighth and Seneca
streets, and viii cost from So, 200 to
$1,000.
The building, a. designed by Gleichman
q Lane, the architects, will be frame on
stone foundations, and will be in the
Moresque style of architecture. It will be
seventy feet long on Seneca street and
iorty-eight feet wide on Eighth and will
De ninety-two feet high from the grade to
the top Of the tower. The main hall of
the temple will be approached by fight
OF broad steps fourteen feet long, and the
main doorway will be under lofty Nor
eSque arch set back, in the upper part of
which will be circular stained-glass win
dow. The large oak doors, which will be
peautliuily paneled, will also be set back
from the wall.
The center tower on the Eighth street
'front.' OF the building, will be ninety-two
feet high and eighteen feet square at the
base, ending with conical octagon dome,
which IS typical Of synagogue architec-
ture. 1t will be ornamented with battle
ments and will have pinnacles at the
corners with galvanized iron finals. On
the portion of the tower over the arch will
congregation, "Ohavcth Sholum," in
Hebrew characters, over the emblem Of
the congregations double tablet with
lions rampant on each side, all of which
will be gilded. At each corner of the same
front OF the building will be a smaller
tower, sixty feet high, with battlements
and heavy Moorish cornices and crowned
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by four stained-glass windows set between
buttresses, divided at the gallery floor in
such way as not to spoil the artistic
effect of the work. The walls will be sur
mounted by heavy cornices.
The main part of the basement will be
used as Sunday-school room, with a side
entrance and hall on Seneca street. From
this there will be an entrance to the rabbi 5
study, as well as to the Sunday-school
room. The latter will be the same size as
the temple hall, 3Sx44 feet, and will be II
feet high, the ceiling being supported by
four turned wooden pillars. There will
also be hall in front. from which stair
way viii! lead to the vestibule of the tenn
pie. A library, Office and class room will
occupy the remainder of this floor.
On passing through the main doors one
will enter the vestibule of the temple with
stairs at each side leading to the gallery,
the fight on the left being also continued
to the basement. Two pairs of double
swinging doors will open into the two
aisles, which will run up the sides of the
that the best seats will be directly in front
of the sanctuary. The seats will have
carved ends. The roof will be steep
pitched end open-timbered and the gal
ieries, which will extend ten feet from the
walls, will be suspended by iron rods from
trusses in the roof. The galleries will be
paneied underneath and paneled and dec
GRATED in front in Moresque style.
But the most beautiful feature of the
temple will be the sanctuary AMI choir
gallery. These will be reached through q
beautiful Moresque arch, appropriately
carved, and will be under dome-shaped
cove extending from the arch sixteen feet
to the rear wall. This cove win be pierced
with large stained-glass windows, the light
from which will produce fine effect in
the sanctuary. The sanctuary proper will
be on platform reached by four steps. In
the center will be the reading desk or pull
pit, eleven feet across, with room for the
rabbi and two readers to spread out the
scrolls. In the rear corners Of the sanctu-
arv will be seats for the president and vice
president OF the congregation, set in
inches and under canopies built for them.
The ark will occupy the center of the
sanctuary, with an approach of two steps
on an easy rise. It will be ten feet wide
and twenty-five feet high, finished with a
dome effect on the top. The ark proper is
q receptacle for the scrolls, which are OF
quite imposing size, and often very costly.
David Kaufman has presented the congre-
CATION with scrolls which cost $3.50, being
written by hand with illuminated initial
letters. The ark will have bowed doors
eight feet high, which, when opened,
will disclose the scrolls. In opening, the
doors will automatically illuminate the
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incandescent lamp concealed ia the hood
Immediately over the doors. Above the ark
proper will be two marble slabs with the
ten commandments engraved on them.
Behind and in connection with the ark
will be screen of interiaced wooden fret
work. This will be semicircled in double
sense, as it will both curve inwards from
the sides and sweep downwards from the
sides of the arch, where it will be twenty
four feet above the sanctuary, to = height
of sixteen feet above the sanctuary in the
center, and will hide both the choir and
the organist from view. A pipe organ will
be placed in the choir gallery, sixteen feet
across. In front of the ark a
Moorish lamp will be kept always burn
ing Stairs will ascend from a side hall on
the left to the choir gallery A private room
for the rabbi will be placed on the
auditorium floor, on the right-hand side OF
the sanctuary.
The seating capacity of the temple will
be about 500. The building will be lighted
with electricity, if the electric companies
viii put meters in the building. Other