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Marcus Friedlander
Temple Sinai (officially the First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland) is a Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 2808 Summit Street (28th and Webster Streets) in Oakland, California, Oakland, California, in the United States. Founded in 1875, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), East San Francisco Bay region. Its early members included Gertrude Stein and Judah Leon Magnes, who studied at Temple Sinai's Sabbath school, and Ray Frank, who taught them. Originally traditional, the temple reformed its beliefs and practices under the leadership of Rabbi Marcus Friedlander (1893–1915). By 1914, it had become a Pittsburgh Platform, Classical Reform congregation. That year the current sanctuary was built: a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts structure designed by G. Albert Lansburgh, which is the oldest synagogue building in Oakland. The congregation weathered four major financial crises by 1934. From then until 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliptical Dome
An elliptical dome, or an ''oval dome'', is a dome whose bottom Cross section (geometry), cross-section takes the form of an ellipse. Technically, an ''ellipsoidal dome'' has a circular cross-section, so is not quite the same. While the cupola can take different Geometric shape, geometries, when the ceiling's cross-section takes the form of an ellipse, and due to the reflecting properties of an ellipse, any two persons standing at a Focus (geometry), focus of the floor's ellipse can have one whisper, and the other hears; this is a whispering gallery. The largest elliptical dome in the world is at the Sanctuary of Vicoforte in Vicoforte, Italy. In architecture Elliptical domes have many applications in architecture; and are useful in covering rectangular spaces. The Spheroid#Oblate_spheroids, oblate, or horizontal elliptical dome is useful when there is a need to limit height of the space that would result from a spherical dome. As the mathematical description of an elliptical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
