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The main sanctuary has a warm interior palette with maple panels and colored
glass.
A grand stair connects the main level with the social hall below.
Contemporary details express the traditional division of men and women. Colored
glass panels admit filtered light.
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The main sanctuary has a warm interior palette with maple panels and colored
glass.
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Young Israel of New Rochelle
New Rochelle, New York
The Young Israel New Rochelle Synagogue creates a new place of worship for a
growing Orthodox congregation in New Rochelle, New York. The challenge of
accommodating the building’s program on a sloping site in a residential
neighborhood has been met by a close collaboration with the congregation during
the design process.

The building program creates a Beit Knesset main sanctuary and a Beit Midrash
Chapel seating that provides for daily services and study. A dramatic
multi-level lobby is a distinct gathering place for the congregation, linking
the main sanctuary to the social hall below. The synagogue also houses several
meeting and multi-purpose rooms, administrative offices and a full catering
kitchen.

The building is actively used throughout the day, beginning with morning prayer
in the chapel and ending with evening study sessions in the classrooms. Driving
the building’s layout was the Halacha, which required the eastern orientation of
both the sanctuary and the chapel so members may pray facing Jerusalem. The main
sanctuary faces east and seats 600 people, which includes the side galleries and
upper level balcony. This also serves to accommodate the traditional division of
men and women.

Nestled into the dense residential fabric of the neighborhood, the new structure
needed to both fit in with its neighbors and also be a recognizable landmark.
The design of the synagogue evolved around a theme of timeless imagery,
tradition and holiness. Synagogue design has not historically been bound by any
architectural design parameters. As such associations are often made to both
local and historical building traditions. This new synagogue reinforces the
congregation’s own identity while placing it within the community. A warm
interior palette is achieved through the selected use of maple panels, Jerusalem
stone and the sculptural use of light.


COMPLETION

2008


SIZE

50,000 SF


LINKS

Young Israel New Rochelle


PHOTOGRAPHY

Chuck Choi



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