Sinagoga Centro Israelita do Cambuci-The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art

-Sinagoga Centro Israelita do Cambuci and The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art- The Center for Jewish Art- The hebrew University of Jerusalem (http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=30572) -District: Cambuci- São Paulo - Brazil -Location: Rua Teixeira Mendes, 54.  -Foundation: 1941 -Project of the engineer Leo Bonfim Dei Vegni Neri, and responsible for the construction David Biase. The synagogue projects in the first half of the twentieth century in Sao Paulo reflected the architectural party present in the communities of origin of the immigrants who built them, that is, Eastern Europe.

-Description of the building: The building has a hall for kidush on the ground floor. Two external side steps lead to the entrance to the synagogue, located on the first floor. On this floor, a double wooden door is the access to the male section. Rows of benches and respective supports for sidurim, with space to store them, border the central corridor (wooden floor). These wooden benches still retain the small identification plates of their former occupants. The women's sector is located on a higher floor, in the format of the old synagogues.

-Current situation: building is conserved and maintaining, as far as possible, its original characteristics. This synagogue was closed for 15 years, and reopened in June 2014. On a monthly basis, a group of volunteers from the "Chavurá Boker" group organizes a community Cabalat Shabbat that is aimed at the active participation of children.

-Maintainers in 2018: King Solomon Masonry- “Loja Maçonica Rei Salomão”

-The “Escola Israelita Brasileira do Cambuci” (School) was a neighbor of the Synagogue (until it merged with the I.L.Peretz School).  Comments on the photos:

-Paintings of the “Mazalót”(Zodiacs): In this synagogue, these signs are inserted in mural paintings, delimited by frames, along the whole "wall", blue, that serves as protection to the upper floor, or rather, "women's place". Each symbol corresponds to one month of the Jewish calendar

-Paintings of various other themes and constants in various synagogues are present in a profusion of colors: Kotel Hamaaravi, Mount Sinai, Burning Bush, Ten Commandments, Shofar, Torah Scrolls, Chandeliers, Kever Rachel, Maguen David

-Two lions next to the “Ten Commandments Tablets”, located on the Aron Hakodesh

-Bimá, on raised floor in wood, is surrounded by balusters, also in wood

-Minor silver candelabra

-Windows with Maguen David -Double wooden door at the entrance of the synagogue

-Women's sector -Aron Hacodesh -Bimá

-Wooden benches, detail with Maguen David, small cabinet for sidurim

-Small metal plaques with identification of former members and regulars -Synagogue building -Closet with sidurim and talitot

-Paróchet

-1941 plaque, the year of the founding of the synagogue, with the names of those who were part of the "Commission that built the Social Headquarters"