- almemar: Reading desk in a synagogue.
- almemor: Reading desk in a synagogue.
- ark: An ornamental, enclosed repository in a synagogue for the scrolls of the Torah.
- beth-knesset: A Jewish house of assembly and prayer; a synagogue.
- beth-midrash: A traditional Jewish school.
- beth-mikdash: A synagogue.
- bimah: The platform in a synagogue from which services are conducted. Also called almemar, bema.
- Cherubim: Figures with wings over the mercy-seat in the Jewish temple, later members of the second of the Nine Orders of Angels with attributes of the knowledge and contemplation of Divine things. Thus representations of an adult figure with wings.
- debir: The holy of holies in the Temple of Solomon which held the ark of the covenant.
- echal: The cupboard in a synagogue which contains the rolls of the Law.
- ghetto: In ancient cities of Europe, especially in Italy, the Jewish quarter; a district to which the Jews were confined…
- hekhal: The sanctuary or largest main room in the Temple of Solomon.
- Holy Ark: The cabinet in a synagogue in which the scrolls of the Torah are kept, set into or against the wall that faces toward Jerusalem.
- kibbutz: Communally-owned collective rural settlement in Palestine (later Israel) established by Jewish immigrants from early 20th c. Some were designed by European-born architects.
- kiryah: In ancient Israel, a city.
- magen-Dawid: Star of David; also called Solomon’s seal.
- migdol: A watchtower or citadel in ancient Israel and Canaan. 2. A fortress temple.
- mikdash: A sanctuary; a temple in ancient Israel.
- palm: An ancient Hebrew and Chaldean unit of linear measure; 4 digits = 1 palm; 3 palms = 1 span; 2 spans = 1 cubit (1′-9.888″).
- pamper: Representation of vine-stems with grapes, often found draped in spirals around columns, suggesting the twisted Trajanic or Solomonic form. 2. Grapes, leaves, and vine-stems as running undercut ornament in cavettos and other continuous hollows at the tops of Perp. screens called trail.
- Salomónica: See solomonic.
- Solomonic order: See spiral column.
- spiral column: Also see barley-sugar column, solomonica, torso, twisted column.
- synagogue: A meeting place for Jewish worship.
- tebam: The reader’s platform in a synagogue.
- Temple of Solomon: The first Temple of Jerusalem, completed c950 B.C. by Phoenician artisans under the direction of King Solomon and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 B.C. Based on Canaanite and Phoenician prototypes, it was oblong in shape, and consisted of three main parts: an outer hall (ulam), the main sanctuary (hekhal), and the holy of holies (debir), all decorated with massive carvings in ivory, gold, and cedar.
- twisted column : A column that has a twisted or spiral appearance. Also see barley-sugar column, solomonica, torso, twisted column.
- ulam: The outer hall of the Temple of Solomon, which served as an anteroom.
- yatzia: The three-storied structure which surrounded the Temple of Solomon on three sides.
Also see Architecture index.