A synagogue, called Beit Kneset, house of gathering, in Hebrew and also called a shul, meaning school in Yiddish, or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews or Samaritans. The cited article says it serves as a house of prayer and includes a main sanctuary with the Torah ark where the Torah scrolls are kept, called an aron qodesh by Ashkenazi Jews and a hekhal by Sephardic Jews, and a stage called the bema in front of it, as well as raised galleries for female worshipers. Buildings recorded in the atlas as synagogues are grouped under this concept.
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also called a shul (meaning school in Yiddish) or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.
Wooden synagogues in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Wikipedia)
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Wooden synagogues are an original style of vernacular synagogue architecture that emerged in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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