Museum
Museu Judaico de São Paulo
Byzantine-style former synagogue with seven sides, now telling the story of Jewish immigration to Brazil.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Museu Judaico de São Paulo follows a group of prospering Jewish families, among them the Klabins and the Lafers, who in 1926 chose a site two miles from Bom Retiro, where most of the city's Jewish immigrants had settled, to build a temple of their own. You'll hear how architect Samuel Roder shaped the seven-sided building around numerology from the Torah, and about the Hebrew inscription carved above its facade. It traces the congregation's decades inside these walls before the keys changed hands.
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