Beth-El Temple
Nineteen forty-nine sanctuary of gilded stucco and stained glass, seating five hundred beneath windows depicting the twelve tribes of Israel.
This guide to Beth-El Temple in Casablanca follows the Algerian Jewish families who fled French rule and pooled money in nineteen forty-nine to build a sanctuary meant to hold five hundred worshippers, at a time when the city's Jewish community numbered in the tens of thousands across more than thirty synagogues. It traces the stained-glass panels of the twelve tribes that visitors keep comparing to Chagall, and the gilded stucco walls that nearly went unrestored before a late-nineties rescue kept the original surfaces. Stand under the glass and count the panels before you move toward the guarded door.
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