In 1989, Norman Jaffe created a warm, inviting space for prayer, filled with natural wood, with a view of trees,

In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things...It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators...

Built from 1948 to 1953, this is one of the first great modern American synagogues,

The history and architecture of this restored 1845 synagogue, open as a historic site by the Jewish Museum of Maryland, sums up some of the dramatic changes in American Judaism and in American taste before and after the Civil War. Built for the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in Greek-temple design, it has served many congregations, not all Jewish.

After World War I, Jewish architects developed a new style based, perhaps surprisingly, on Byzantine Christian church designs,

The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all.