Museu Judaico de São Paulo

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.