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69366

Synagogue

4 Barkly Street,, BALLARAT CENTRAL VIC 3350 - Property No B0292

One of Victoria's earliest synagogues, and the earliest substantially intact synagogue with its original internal arrangements and furnishings, including the central beam. It was built in 1861 to the design of T B Cameron, and has a Tuscan prostyle tetrastyle portico. Classified: 'Local' 11/12/1958 Revised: 12/10/1972

B0292

State
70033

Former Synagogue

74 McKillop Street, (Cnr Yarra Street), GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B4767

An elaborate and early example of synagogue design in Victoria, erected in 1861 to designs by John Young of Young and Honey. The facade has a heavily bracketted broken pediment incorporating a Diocletian window; pilasters with flanking colonettes, and mannerist rusticated voussoirs about the entrance. Classified: 04/09/1980 Revised:03/08/1998

B4767

State
197285

Mickva Yisrael Synagogue

East Melbourne Synagogue

494 - 500 Albert Street,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B4180

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 ... more

B4180

State
67730

Former Synagogue

City Free Kindergarten

275-285 Exhibition Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0444

The City Free Kindergarten is a simple brick structure with pedimented gables, brick pilasters and arched windows with brick dressings. It was constructed in 1859-60 as a Jewish School for the Michveh Yisrael Synagogue. The architects were Knight and Keer who also designed Parliament House, Melbourne. The building was used for worship until 1877 and since then has served several uses. It became a kindergarten in 1920. This was one of the earliest synagogues in Melbourne and a ... more

B0444

State
68309

Synagogue - Melbourne Hebrew Congregation

2 - 8 Toorak Road, (Cnr St Kilda Road), SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B4858

Victoria's most prominent synagogue, in a style of twentieth century Baroque classicism with a Corinthian portico and striking copper dome suggestive of the compostition of Palladio's Villa Capra. It was built in 1928-30 to the design of Nahum Barnet and is in very intact condition, with a richly designed interior in traditional form, including a women's gallery. Classified: 05/03/1987

B4858

State
 

Sassoon Yehuda Sephardi Synagogue

St Kilda Hebrew Congregation Synagogue

12 Charnwood Grove,, ST KILDA VIC 3182 - Property No B7100

B7100

File only
121253

Former Residence

Former Synagogue

32 Lord Street,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No B5923

A most unusual brick building, erected as a home for James Dolphin in 1911-12 but used as a synagogue and Sabbath School by the Brunswick Talmun Torah from 1942 until its closure in 1987, during which time it was the only synagogue north of the City of Melbourne. The building is notable for its extraordinary portico (of timber?) with oversized entablature supported on paired Ionic columns, its keyhole-shaped front door and windows giving a somewhat Moresque character; and ... more

B5923

Regional
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