synagogue

variants also synagog

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Recent Examples of synagogue Israel, a conservative synagogue that has been in Toms River for 75 years. Tracey Tully, New York Times, 21 May 2025 Six of the injured in what federal officials have described as a terror attack were from the same synagogue, Bonai Shalom. Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 8 June 2025 My parents were some of the founders of the Riverdale Temple, which is a Reform synagogue. Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025 The Baghdadi Jewish community in Kolkata, India, built synagogues, schools, and a lasting legacy. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for synagogue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for synagogue
Noun
  • What to Know: Iranian missiles hit Beersheba and Haifa, injuring at least 23 people and damaging a mosque and multiple buildings.
    Amanda Castro Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • Gendron’s manifesto discusses how he was radicalized on the dark web and inspired to attack after watching videos of Brenton Tarrant’s 2019 massacre of 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
    Alex Hinton, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • The caretaking and preservation of these dying congregations is just another aspect of the invisible labor taken on by a generation of women whose work in the home and the shul—caring for children, husbands, family members—was always taken for granted.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
  • Halfway across the city, around the time that Stein was expelled from religious shul in Brooklyn, Weinstein was struggling with his own trans identity, living on the Upper West Side among a dynastic family of his own.
    Leah Abrams, Them., 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There, Pugh and Carson constructed the temple from 250,000 individual replica bones and 5,500 skulls, an endeavor that took six months to complete.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
  • The temple—dubbed Palaspata, after the native name for the area—is located on a hilltop in the municipality of Caracollo, near Tiwanaku's historical UNESCO site by Lake Titicaca.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The setting includes pagodas, bridges, and a teahouse.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The outdoor patio, surrounded by palm trees and murals, is home to a majestic pagoda.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Renovation plans to this tabernacle feature a mental wellness center and a workout room.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2025
  • Miller also noted that the original tabernacle of the church survived, along with 17th-century lead coffins that visitors can view under a glass floor.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025

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