Sitting in the plush velvet and mahogany pews inside the Fort Tryon Jewish Center in Washington Heights, ethereal light streaming in through 80-foot stained glass windows, it is possible to be transported back in time half a century, when the sanctuary was built as an addition to the synagogue, established in 1938.
The centerpiece was and remains an ark framed by a 20-foot mosaic arch in the shape of Moses’s two tablets, a gem of midcentury design. The new sanctuary was a reminder for the congregants — many of them Holocaust survivors — that they had triumphed yet again in the diaspora.
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