I am not jewish, but it is absoutely outrageous that any jewel from the Lebanese architectural heritage be destroyed or left desolate when its condition allows its preservation or restoration. Be it a church, a mosque or a synagogue, or any other sort of historic landmark. Enough of Lebanon has already been destroyed!!!
A press article (http://thejewsoflebanon.org/me/?p=240) was recently published in a Lebanese paper by a Lebanese architect denouncing the dismantling of the buildings around Magen Avraham, in what used to be Beirut`s Jewish district until the 1980s.
The persons responsible for the Jewish community`s properties in Lebanon must really do something about that (even discretely, they can lobby strongly), before it is too late. It is the first time I read about the possibility that the Synagogue could have been sold by the Jewish community. Let us just hope this is not true... It would be equally outrageous! |
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