Friday, June 24, 2005
Moving east: Orthodox shul to get new facility
Next month, Kehillat Yaakov Warrensville Center Synagogue will break ground for a new, larger facility to be known as Cedar Road Synagogue, notes congregation president Maury Simon.
The 18,000-square-foot building will take about a year to build and will be located at 23749 Cedar Road in Lyndhurst.
The 140-family Cleveland Heights congregation, which describes itself as a traditionally Orthodox shul that welcomes all Jews regardless of their denomination, is currently renting space from the Mosdos Ohr HaTorah day school. Mosdos bought the property from the shul in 1999.
Cedar Road Synagogue is being designed by Bialosky + Partners, a Cleveland-based architectural firm. Principle Mark Olson, who is in charge of the project, says the new facility will be dominated by a spacious sanctuary that can seat 248 congregants.
Large bay windows set at the corners of an octagonal, copper-topped roof will allow ample light into the space, Olson adds. Bialosky + Partners is in the process of designing a custom ark and bima (pulpit) for the sanctuary, which also will include a balcony.
Groundbreaking for the $4 million project (the shul will soon embark on a fundraising campaign) will take place during the second week of July. Construction will start immediately and could be completed by June of next year.
Warrensville Center Synagogue officials have been planning to build a new synagogue for over a decade, notes Simon, a Pennsylvania native who has been shul president for four years.
The gradual Jewish shift of Cleveland's Jews to the eastern suburbs has left the synagogue with an aging congregation. At its height n following a merger of eight synagogues in the 1950s n Warrensville Center Synagogue boasted a congregation of 900 families.
Those days are long gone, but Simon hopes the new synagogue will attract younger couples from areas most affected by the population shift, namely the Beachwood/ Pepper Pike/ Orange/ Chagrin Falls region. An attempt to move to a space on Richmond Road fizzled after the shul was unable to obtain proper land-use permits.
Simon has seen blueprints of the Cedar Road project and is "very enthused" by the modern vision Bialosky + Partners has created. "It's going to be a magnificent structure, absolutely gorgeous," he says.
And, as it has always been at Warrensville Center Synagogue, Simon remarks "we will welcome everyone to our new shul."
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/06/23/news/local/moving0624.txt
Next month, Kehillat Yaakov Warrensville Center Synagogue will break ground for a new, larger facility to be known as Cedar Road Synagogue, notes congregation president Maury Simon.
The 18,000-square-foot building will take about a year to build and will be located at 23749 Cedar Road in Lyndhurst.
The 140-family Cleveland Heights congregation, which describes itself as a traditionally Orthodox shul that welcomes all Jews regardless of their denomination, is currently renting space from the Mosdos Ohr HaTorah day school. Mosdos bought the property from the shul in 1999.
Cedar Road Synagogue is being designed by Bialosky + Partners, a Cleveland-based architectural firm. Principle Mark Olson, who is in charge of the project, says the new facility will be dominated by a spacious sanctuary that can seat 248 congregants.
Large bay windows set at the corners of an octagonal, copper-topped roof will allow ample light into the space, Olson adds. Bialosky + Partners is in the process of designing a custom ark and bima (pulpit) for the sanctuary, which also will include a balcony.
Groundbreaking for the $4 million project (the shul will soon embark on a fundraising campaign) will take place during the second week of July. Construction will start immediately and could be completed by June of next year.
Warrensville Center Synagogue officials have been planning to build a new synagogue for over a decade, notes Simon, a Pennsylvania native who has been shul president for four years.
The gradual Jewish shift of Cleveland's Jews to the eastern suburbs has left the synagogue with an aging congregation. At its height n following a merger of eight synagogues in the 1950s n Warrensville Center Synagogue boasted a congregation of 900 families.
Those days are long gone, but Simon hopes the new synagogue will attract younger couples from areas most affected by the population shift, namely the Beachwood/ Pepper Pike/ Orange/ Chagrin Falls region. An attempt to move to a space on Richmond Road fizzled after the shul was unable to obtain proper land-use permits.
Simon has seen blueprints of the Cedar Road project and is "very enthused" by the modern vision Bialosky + Partners has created. "It's going to be a magnificent structure, absolutely gorgeous," he says.
And, as it has always been at Warrensville Center Synagogue, Simon remarks "we will welcome everyone to our new shul."
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/06/23/news/local/moving0624.txt
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