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"Temple B'nai Shalom" redirects here. For other synagogues with similar names, see Temple B'nai Sholom (disambiguation).

Temple B'nai Shalom (transliterated from Hebrew as "Sons / Children of Peace") is a former synagogue in Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, in the United States. The building has been used as a history museum since 2009, operated as Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society Museum.

History

The congregation formed in 1894;[1] and a synagogue building was erected at Chickasaw and South Church Streets in 1896. The synagogue was deconsecrated in 2009[2] and the congregation donated the building to the Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society[3] to be used as a county history museum.

Architecture

The white clapboard building is notable for its Moorish Revival Horseshoe arch windows, and for a truncated tower that "references the porthole of an Islamic minaret" with a slender Horseshoe arch window.[4]

References

  1. ^ Turitz, Leo; Turitz, Evelyn (1983). Jews in Early Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-87805-178-6 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "About Us". Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society. Retrieved January 3, 2023.[dead link]
  3. ^ laura (July 19, 2016). "Lincoln County Historical Museum". Visit Brookhaven Mississippi. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  4. ^ Stolzman, Henry; Stolzman, Daniel (2004). Synagogue Architecture in America: Faith, Spirit & Identity (Illustrated ed.). Images Publishing. p. 129. ISBN 9781864700749.
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