The Great Synagogue
Uri Padan Architects, 2015–2016

[Originally designed by architect Daniel Hacohen Lifshitz, 1924-1939]
Preservation of the two main façades of the first communal building in the moshava of Petach Tikva, an early agricultural settlement established during the British Mandate of Palestine.

Top:
British Army Intelligence Officer Sir Gilbert Clayton with Lady Enid Clayton at the entrance to the Synagogue (~1920s). Courtesy of the Petah Tikva Historical Archive;  
The 75th Jubilee Parade in front of the synagogue. Photo by Nisan Ben Noam, 1953.

Bottom:
Reconstructed drawings, 1:50;
Façade and Entrance to the Synagogue. Courtesy of The Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.




hovevey tsion street, petach tikva