page_title: Mashiach Borochoff House
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Mashiach Borochoff House / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Close-up of the entrance gate in front of the Mashiach Borochoff House, Jaffa Road, Jerusalem, featuring lion statues on pillars and the date of establishment (1908) Français&#160;: l'un de ces 2 lions a été volé quelques années plus tard (2016), il n'en reste plus qu'un
context_page_description: Mashiach Borochoff House is a historical building located at 64 Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, Israel. Built in 1908 in eclectic style, its entrance is covered by an arcade with pointed arches supported by pseudo-Corinthian columns. The gate, in the style of 17th-century Georgian architecture, consists of two pillars connected by ironwork. A lion statue is placed atop each pillar. The house was built by Mashiach Borochoff, a wealthy Bukharan Jewish merchant, as a family residence. In 1947, a year after Borochoff's death, the property was sold to Barclays bank. It has functioned as a bank branch since that time.
context_section_description: The mansion was designed in an eclectic architectural style. The entrance is covered with an arcade with three pointed arches supported by pseudo-Corinthian columns. The ceiling of the arcade is decorated with rosettes. The overall effect was meant to impress and attract the attention of passersby on Jaffa Road, the main Jerusalem thoroughfare.
  The ironwork front gate hangs between two pillar piers with a scrollwork  overthrow bearing the date of construction, 1908. According to Kroyanker, the gate is in the style of 17th-century Georgian architecture. 
  Atop each pillar is a lion statue. These statues were sculpted by Simcha Yanover. The lion statues are noted for their resemblance to the lion statues posted on pillars in front of the Mahane Yehuda Police Station, further to the west, although it is not known who sculpted the latter. One of the lions was rendered in micrography in The Jerusalem Haggadah (1996). In 2016 the lion statue atop the right pillar went missing; it is assumed to have been stolen. The other lion statue sustained damage to its base, but is still affixed to the pillar.
caption: Lion statues in front of the Mashiach Borochoff House, 2010
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