Features of a Synagogue Like a church, a synagogue also contains holy artefacts and representations. These include:The two tablets of the Ten Commandments, written in Hebrew

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Features of a Synagogue

Like a church, a synagogue also contains holy artefacts and representations. These include:

The two tablets of the Ten Commandments, written in Hebrew

                        

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These are the scrolls of the Torah; they are kept behind a curtain that is decorated with the banners of the tribes of Israel, this is found below the ark. Behind the curtain are the Torah scrolls in their cases.  The scrolls are said to be "dressed". The scrolls are decorated with items which recall the roll of the priests in the temple.

                

There is also a large, raised, reader's platform called the bimah, where the Torah is read and from where the services are centered in synagogues.

                         

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