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TEMPLE B’NAI ISRAEL

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1904, Harry A. Overbeck. 213 S. Commerce St.

This Beaux-Arts classical building, similar to Greenville’s Hebrew Union Temple (see DR11) also designed by Dallas architect Overbeck, has a pedimented portico supported by paired giant-order Ionic columns and a grand entrance with a semicircular fanlight of stained glass. The interior includes the original electric light fixtures and Pilcher pipe organ. A marble frontispiece with engaged columns defines the Torah Ark. Founded in 1843, the temple’s congregation is the oldest in Mississippi and a charter member of the Union for Reform Judaism. In 1991, temple members deeded the building to the Institute of Southern Jewish Life to ensure its future preservation.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
MAGNOLIA HALL (HENDERSON-BRITTON HOUSE)
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
GLEN AUBURN
NATCHEZ INSTITUTE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "TEMPLE B’NAI ISRAEL", [Natchez, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND25.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 33-34.

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