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Mickva Yisrael Synagogue

Other Name East Melbourne Synagogue Location 494 - 500 Albert Street,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B4180 File Number B4180 Level State

[1/1] B4180 Mickva Yisrael Synagogue

Statement of Significance

Victoria's largest nineteenth century synagogue, containing a Bema, Tabernacle and other features in a highly intact state and of architectural interest especially for the interior of 1877, designed by Crough &Wilson.
The space is surrounded on three sides by a Gallery carried on iron columns, each surmounted by an unusual arrangement of an impost block flanked by consoles (in the manner of the Badia at Fiesole, Italy); the face of the gallery is treated as a classical entablature with dentillation and the balustrade is of swag-bellied cast iron. The main ceiling is panelled, with a dentillated and modillionated cornice and with a row of large and unusual ventilators marking the location of former suspended gas lights. The facade, completed in 1883 to the design of T J Crouch, is an imposing but not especially remarkable renaissance design with a pedimented centre panel projecting slightly and with dome-like hexagonal mansard roofs to either side.
Classified: 01/12/1977
Revised:05/03/1987
Revised: 03/08/1998