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Moorish Revival

Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural style

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s that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental

Orientalism

Orientalism refers to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, and can also refer to a sympathetic stance towards the region by a writer or other person....
. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-nineteenth century, part of a widening vocabulary of articulated

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Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural style

Architectural style

Orientalism

Articulation (architecture)

Articulation, in art and architecture, is first of all a joint. Expanding from that definition, articulation is also a method of styling the joints in the formal :Category:Architectural elements of architectural design....
decorative ornament beyond classical and Gothic modes. Little distinction was made in European and American practice between motifs drawn from Ottoman Turkey or from Andalusia

Andalusia

Andalusia is a country in the Spanish State. It is the most populous and the second largest, in terms of land area, of the seventeen autonomous communities of the Spain....
.

The "Moorish" garden structures built at Sheringham, Norfolk, ca. 1812, were an unusual touch at the time, a parallel to chinoiserie

Chinoiserie

Chinoiserie, a French term, signifying "Chinese-esque", refers to a recurring theme in European Art styles, periods and movementss since the seventeenth century, which reflect Chinese art influences....
, but as early as 1826, Edward Blore

Edward Blore

Edward Blore was a 19th century British architect and antiquary. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Blore is most notable for his completion of John Nash's design of Buckingham Palace, following Nash's dismissal....
used islamic arches, domes of various size and shapes and other details of Near Eastern Islamic architecture to great effect in his design for Alupka Palace in Crimea

Crimea

Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name....
, a cultural setting that had already been penetrated by authentic Ottoman styles. By the mid-19th century, the style was adopted by the Jews of Central Europe

Central Europe

Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern Europe and Western Europe Europe. In addition, Northern Europe, Southern Europe and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe....
, who associated mudejar

Mudéjar

Mud?jar is the name given to the Moors or Muslims of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity....
architectural forms with the golden age of Jewry in medieval Muslim Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
. As a consequence, Moorish Revival spread around the globe as a preferred style of synagogue architecture

Synagogue architecture

Unlike other types of religious architecture where worship buildings often conform to consistent rules for a given architectural period such as the cruciform plan of Gothic churches, or beehive-shaped shikaras of Hindu temple architecture, dominant styles and periods are not present in the history of synagogue architecture....
.

In the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving was an United States author, essays, biography and history of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmi...
's travel sketch, Tales of the Alhambra
Tales of the Alhambra

Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, sketch story, and stories by Washington Irving.Irving lived in Spain between 1826 and 1829, collecting information in the Spanish archives for several books....
(1832) first brought Moorish Andalusia into readers' imaginations; one of the first neo-Moorish structures was Iranistan

Iranistan

Iranistan was a Moorish Revival mansion in Bridgeport, Connecticut that was built by P. T. Barnum in 1848. At this "beautiful country seat" Barnum played host to such famous contemporaries as Matthew Arnold, George Custer, Horace Greeley, and Mark Twain....
, a mansion of P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman remembered for hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus....
in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in and the former county seat of Fairfield County, Connecticut, the city had an estimated population of 137,912 in 2006 and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area....
. Constructed in 1848 and demolished by fire ten years later, this architectural extravaganza "sprouted bulbous domes and horseshoe arches". In the 1860s, the style spread across America, with Olana, the painter Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church was an United States Landscape art Painting born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape art painters....
's house overlooking the Hudson River, Castle Garden in Jacksonville and Nutt's Folly in Natchez, Mississippi

Natchez, Mississippi

Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
usually cited among the more prominent examples. After the American Civil War, Moorish or Turkish smoking rooms achieved some popularity. There were Moorish details in the interiors created for the Havemeyer residence on Fifth Avenue by Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass and is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aestheticism movements....
. The 1914 Pittock Mansion

Pittock Mansion

The Pittock Mansion is a French Renaissance ch?teau in the Tualatin Mountains of Portland, Oregon originally built as a private home for The Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock and his wife, Georgiana Pittock....
in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
incorporates Turkish design features, as well as French, English, and Italian ones; the smoking room in particular has notable Moorish revival elements. In 1937, the Corn Palace

Corn Palace

The Corn Palace is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota. It is a popular tourist destination, visited by over 500,000 people each year....
in Mitchell, South Dakota

Mitchell, South Dakota

Mitchell is a city in and the county seat of Davison County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 14,558 at the 2000 United States Census....
added unusual minarets and Moorish domes, unusual because the polychrome decorations are made out of corn cobs of various colors assembled like mosaic tiles to create patterns. The 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel, whose minarets and Moorish domes are now the pride of the University of Tampa

University of Tampa

The University of Tampa, or UT, is a private, co-educational private university in downtown Tampa, Florida. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools....
, was a particularly extravagant example of the style. Other schools with Moorish Revival buildings include Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a leading research institution, ranked 50th in the United States among national universities in 2008.....
in New York City.

Although Carlo Bugatti employed Moorish arcading among the exotic features of his furniture, shown at the 1902 exhibition at Turin

Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, by that time the Moorish Revival was very much on the wane everywhere but Imperial Russia, where the shell-encrusted Morozov House in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
(a stylisation of a Portuguese palace in Sintra

Sintra

Sintra is both a town and a Municipalities of Portugal in Portugal, located in the district of Lisbon . The town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on account of its 19th century Romanticism architecture....
) and the Neo-Mameluk palaces of Koreiz

Koreiz

Koreiz is a townlet in the Yalta municipality of Crimea. The name of the town means "villages" in Greek language. The nearby spa of Miskhor was absorbed into Koreiz in 1958....
exemplify the continuing development of the style, and in Bosnia

Bosnia (region)

Historically and geographically, the region known as Bosnia lies mainly in the Dinaric Alps, ranging to the southern borders of the Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina marking its northern and eastern borders....
, where the Austrian government commissioned a range of Neo-Moorish structures. This included application of ornamentations and other Moorish design strategies neither of which had much to do with prior architectural direction of indigenous Bosnian architecture. Post office in Sarajevo

Sarajevo

Sarajevo is the Capital and largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 304,065 people in the four municipalities that make up the city proper, and an estimated urban area population of 419,030 people in the Sarajevo Canton ....
for example follows distinct formal characteristics of design like clarity of form, symmetry, and proportion while the interior followed the same doctrine. Library

Library

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
in Sarajevo is an example of Pseudo Moorish architectural language using decorations and pointed arches while still integrating other formal elements into the design.

In Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, the country conceived as the place of origin of Moorish ornamentation, the interest in this sort of architecture fluctuated from province to province. The main stream was called Neo-Mudéjar

Neo-Mudéjar

The Neo-Mud?jar is an Architectural style which originated in Spain and emerged as a revival of the Mud?jar architecture. It appeared in the late 19th century in Madrid, and soon spread to other regions of the country....
. In Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
, Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Pl?cid Guillem Gaud? i Cornet ? in English sometimes referred to by the Spanish language translation of his name, Antonio Gaud? ? was a Spain Catalonia architecture who belonged to the Modernisme movement and was famous for his unique and highly individualistic designs....
's profound interest in Mudéjar

Mudéjar

Mud?jar is the name given to the Moors or Muslims of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity....
heritage governed the design of his early works, such as Casa Vicens

Casa Vicens

Casa Vicens is a family residence in Barcelona , designed by Antoni Gaud? and built for industrialist Manuel Vicens. It was Gaud?'s first important work....
or Astorga Palace. In Andalusia, the Neo-Mudéjar style gained belated popularity in connection with the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929

Ibero-American Exposition of 1929

The Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 was a world's fair held in Seville, Spain, from the 9th of May 1929 until the 21st of June 1930. Many ornate pavilions were built for the occasion....
and was epitomized by Plaza de España (Seville)

Plaza de España (Seville)

The Plaza de Espa?a is one of Seville's most easily recognised buildings and the epitome of the Moorish Revival in Spanish architecture. In 1929 Seville hosted the Spanish-American Exhibition and numerous buildings were constructed for the exhibition in Maria Luisa Park, among them the Plaza designed by An?bal Gonz?lez....
and Gran Teatro Falla in Cádiz

Cádiz

C?diz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the province of C?diz, one of eight which make up the Autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia....
. In Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
, the Neo-Mudéjar was a characteristic style of housing and public buildings at the turn of the century, while the 1920s return of interest to the style resulted in such buildings as Las Ventas

Las Ventas

The Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas is a famous bullring in Madrid .Situated in the barrio of Guindalera in the district of Salamanca_, it was inaugurated on June 17, 1931....
bull ring

Bull ring

Bull ring may refer to:*The arena in which bullfighting takes place, see bullring,*The Bull Ring, a henge in England;*Bull Ring, Birmingham - a Birmingham City Centre of Birmingham, England;...
and Diario ABC office.

Moorish Revival Theaters in America

Theater	City and State	Architect	Date
Bagdad The Bagdad Theater and Pub The Bagdad Theater is a movie theater in the Hawthorne, Portland, Oregon of Portland, Oregon, Oregon, United States. It originally opened in 1927 and was the site of the premiere gala of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 , and of My Own Private Idaho in 1991....	Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....	Thomas & Mercier	1927
Granada	Emporia, Kansas Emporia, Kansas Emporia is a city in and the county seat of Lyon County, Kansas, Kansas, United States. The population was 26,760 at the 2000 United States Census....	Boller Brothers	1929
Keiths Flushing	Queens, New York	Thomas Lamb Thomas Lamb Thomas Lamb was an American industrial designer. He is best known for his innovative handle designs closely modeled on the mechanics of the human hand....	1928
Alhambra	Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham is the largest city in the United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama. It also includes part of Shelby County, Alabama....	Graven & Maygar	1927
Olympic	Miami, Florida Miami, Florida Miami is a global city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the most populous county in Florida....	John Eberson John Eberson John Eberson was a Romanian born American architect best known for his movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre fashion.Born in Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania, Eberson arrived in the United States in the early 1900s and at first settled in St....	1926
Fox Fox Theatre (Atlanta) The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the grand movie palaces built in the United States in the 1920s. It is located at the corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta....	Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....	Mayre, Alger & Vinour	1929
Alhambra	Hopkinsville, Kentucky Hopkinsville, Kentucky Hopkinsville is a city in Christian County, Kentucky, Kentucky, United States. The population was 30,089 at the 2000 United States Census. It is the county seat of Christian County, Kentucky....	John Walker	1928
Temple	Meridian, Mississippi Meridian, Mississippi Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....	Emile Weil	1927
Saenger	Hattiesburg, Mississippi Hattiesburg, Mississippi Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....	Emile Weil	1929
Fox	North Platte, Nebraska North Platte, Nebraska North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, Nebraska, United States. It is located in the southwestern part of the state, along Interstate 80, at the confluence of the North Platte River and South Platte River Platte Rivers forming the Platte River....	Elmer F. Behrens	1929
Civic	Akron, Ohio Akron, Ohio Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio. In 2007, its population was estimated to be 207,934. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland, Ohio to the north and Canton, Ohio to the south, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....	John Eberson John Eberson John Eberson was a Romanian born American architect best known for his movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre fashion.Born in Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania, Eberson arrived in the United States in the early 1900s and at first settled in St....	1929
Palace	Canton, Ohio Canton, Ohio Canton is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Stark County, Ohio. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio and is situated on the Nimishillen Creek, approximately 24 miles south of Akron, Ohio and 60 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio....	John Eberson John Eberson John Eberson was a Romanian born American architect best known for his movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre fashion.Born in Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania, Eberson arrived in the United States in the early 1900s and at first settled in St....	1926
Palace	Marion, Ohio Marion, Ohio Marion is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Marion County, Ohio. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio, approximately 50 miles north of Columbus, Ohio....	John Eberson John Eberson John Eberson was a Romanian born American architect best known for his movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre fashion.Born in Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania, Eberson arrived in the United States in the early 1900s and at first settled in St....	1928
Sooner	Norman, Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma Norman is the largest city in and the county seat of Cleveland County, Oklahoma in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metroplex Metropolitan Statistical Area....	Harold Gimeno	1929
Plaza Plaza Theatre (El Paso) The Plaza Theatre is a historic building in El Paso, Texas. The theater stands as one of the city's most well-known landmarks, and remains operational today, showing various Broadway productions, musical concerts, and individual performers....	El Paso, Texas El Paso, Texas El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, Texas, United States, and part of the . According to the United States Census Bureau 2006 population estimates, the city had a population of 606,913....	W. Scott Donne	1930
Majestic The Majestic Theatre, San Antonio The Majestic Theatre is San Antonio's oldest and largest atmospheric theatre.The theatre seats 2311 people and was designed by architect John Eberson for Karl Hoblitzelle's Interstate Theatres in 1929....	San Antonio, Texas San Antonio, Texas San Antonio is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population. Located in , the city is a cultural and geographical gateway into the ....	John Eberson John Eberson John Eberson was a Romanian born American architect best known for his movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre fashion.Born in Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania, Eberson arrived in the United States in the early 1900s and at first settled in St....	1929
Tower	Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....	S. Charles Lee S. Charles Lee S. Charles Lee was an United States architect recognized as one of the most prolific and distinguished motion picture theater designers on the West Coast of the United States....	1927
Alhambra	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....	Miller and Pflueger Miller and Pflueger Miller and Pflueger was an architectural firm that formed when James Rupert Miller named Timothy L. Pflueger partner. Pflueger, at the time a rising star of San Francisco's architect community, had begun his architectural career with Miller and Colmesnil sometime in 1907 or 1908, under the tutelage of Miller, senior partner....	1925
Tennessee	Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....	Graven & Mayger	1928
Loews	Richmond, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Richmond is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county....	John Eberson John Eberson John Eberson was a Romanian born American architect best known for his movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre fashion.Born in Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania, Eberson arrived in the United States in the early 1900s and at first settled in St....	1928
Music Box	Chicago, Illinois	Louis J. Simon	1929

Theatres outside the United States

Theater	Photo	City and State	Country	Architect	Date
State/Forum Theatre Forum Theatre The Forum Theatre is a theatre located on the corner of Flinders Street, Melbourne and Russell Street, Melbourne in the Melbourne central business district of Melbourne, Australia....		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....	Bohringer, Taylor & Johnson	1929
Eastern Arcade (former Palace/Metro Theatre)		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....	Hyndman & Bates	1894 (demolished in 2008)

Moorish revival synagogues

Europe

Munich synagogue, by Friedrich von Gärtner

Friedrich von Gärtner

Friedrich von G?rtner was a Germany architect.He and Leo von Klenze are known as the most famous architects of Bavaria under Ludwig I of Bavaria....
, 1832 was the earliest Moorish revival synagogue (destroyed on Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht

File:1938 Interior of Berlin synagogue after Kristallnacht.jpgKristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass or "night of shattered crystal" was a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9?10, 1938....
)

Semper Synagogue

Semper Synagogue

Semper Synagogue, also known as the Dresden Synagogue, was built in 1838-40 for the Jewish community of Dresden by Gottfried Semper. It was an early example of the Moorish Revival style of synagogue architecture....
, by Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper was a Germany architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semperopera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841....
, Dresden, 1839–40 (destroyed on Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht

Leopoldstädter Tempel

The Leopoldst?dter Tempel was the largest synagogue of Vienna, in the district of Leopoldstadt. It was also known as the Israelitische Bethaus in der Wiener Vorstadt Leopoldstadt....
, Vienna, Austria, 1853-58 (destroyed on Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht

Dohány Street Synagogue

The Great Synagogue in Doh?ny Street, also known as Doh?ny Street Synagogue or Tabakgasse Synagogue, is located in Erzs?betv?ros, the 7th district of Budapest....
, Budapest (Hungary), 1854-1859

Leipzig synagogue

Leipzig synagogue

The ornate Moorish Revival Leipzig synagogue was built in 1855 by German Jewish architect Otto Simonson who had studied under Gottfried Semper, architect of the Semper Synagogue in Dresden....
1855 (destroyed on Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht

Glockengasse synagogue

The Glockengasse synagogue was built in 1861 in Cologne, Germany by architect Ernst Friedrich Zwirner. The interior of the magnificent Moorish Revival building featured tiers of arches and a high dome, all decorated in brilliantly-colored Mooresque patterns....
, Cologne, Germany, 1855-61 (destroyed on Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht

Tempel Synagogue

The Tempel Synagogue is a Reform Judaism synagogue in Krak?w, Poland, in the Kazimierz district. The Moorish Revival building was designed by :pl:Ignacy Hercok, and built in 1860-1862 along Miodowa Street....
, Cracow, Poland, 1860-62

Spanish Synagogue

Spanish Synagogue

File:Spanish Synagogue2.jpgThe Spanish Synagogue is a Moorish Revival synagogue built in Prague in 1868 to the design of Vojtech Ign?tz Ullmann....
, Prague

Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
, 1868

Rumbach Street synagogue

Rumbach Street synagogue

The Rumbach Street synagogue is located in Belv?ros, the inner city of the historical old town of Pest, Hungary, in the eastern section of Budapest....
, Budapest, Hungary, 1872

Czernowitz Synagogue

Czernowitz Synagogue

The Czernowitz Synagogue was a magnificent, domed, Moorish Revival synagogue built in 1873 in what is now Chernivtsi, Ukraine. At the time it was built, the city was known as Czernowitz and was part of Austria-Hungary....
, Czernowitz, 1873

Great Synagogue of Florence

Great Synagogue of Florence

The Great Synagogue of Florence or Tempio Maggiore is a magnificent synagogue in Florence, Italy.The synagogue was built between 1874 and 1882....
, Tempio Maggiore, Florence, 1874-82

Princes Road Synagogue

Princes Road Synagogue

Princes Road Synagogue, located in Toxteth, Liverpool in England, is the home of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation. It came into existence when the Jewish community in Liverpool in the late 1860s decided to build itself a new synagogue, reflecting the status and wealth of the community....
, Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
, England, 1874

Manchester Jewish Museum

Manchester Jewish Museum

Manchester Jewish Museum tells the story of the Jewish community in Manchester, England over the last 200 years. It occupies the former Spanish and Portuguese Jews on Cheetham Hill Road and is a grade II* listed building ...
, built as a Sephardic synagogue, Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, England, 1874

Great Synagogue in Pilsen, Pilsen

Pilsen

Plzen is a city in western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the Plzen Region and the fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic....
, Bohemia, Czech Republic, 1888

The Grand Choral Synagogue

Grand Choral Synagogue

The Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg , sometimes called the St. Petersburg Synagogue, is the second largest synagogue in Europe....
, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888

Prešov synagogue, Prešov

Prešov

Pre?ov is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is the seat of the administrative Pre?ov Region . With a population of approximately 91,000, it is the third-largest city in the country....
, Slovakia, 1898

Vrbové synagogue, Vrbové

Vrbové

Vrbov? is a town in the Trnava Region of Slovakia. It has a population of 6,309 as of 2005. The town lies around 8 km northwest from Pie?tany....
, Slovakia, 1883

Košice synagogue, Košice

Košice

Ko?ice Being the economic and cultural centre of eastern Slovakia, Ko?ice is the seat of the Ko?ice Region and Ko?ice Self-governing Region, the Slovak Constitutional Court of Slovakia, three universities, various dioceses, and other institutions....
, Slovakia, 1899, interior of Rundbogenstil building

Sarajevo Synagogue

Sarajevo Synagogue

Sarajevo Synagogue, , located on the south bank of the river Miljacka, was constructed in 1902 and is the only functioning synagogue in Sarajevo today....
1902

Jubilee Synagogue

Jubilee Synagogue

Jubilee Synagogue is a synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic. It also known as the Jerusalem Synagogue because of its location on Jerusalem Street....
, Prague, Czech Republic, 1906

Sofia Synagogue

Sofia Synagogue

The Sofia Synagogue is the largest synagogue in Southeastern Europe, one of two functioning in Bulgaria and one of the largest in Europe.Constructed for the needs of the Bulgarian capital Sofia's mainly Sephardic Jewish community after a project by the Austrian architect Friedrich Gr?nanger, it resembles the old Sephardic synagogue in Vien...
, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1909

United States

Isaac M. Wise Temple

The Isaac M. Wise Temple is the historic temple erected for Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. Rabbi Wise was the founder of American Reform Judaism. The temple is located at 720 Plum Street in Cincinnati, Ohio....
,( also known as the Plum Street Temple) Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865

Congregation Rodeph Shalom

Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Congregation Rodeph Shalom of Philadelphia, a founded in 1795, is the Oldest synagogues in the United States Ashkenazi synagogue in the Western hemisphere....
, Philadelphia, 1866 (no longer standing)

Temple Emanu-El, on Fifth Avenue at 43rd Street, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York built in 1868, designed by Leopold Eidlitz

Leopold Eidlitz

Leopold Eidlitz was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol . Other important commissions included P....
, assisted by Henry Fernbach, (no longer standing)

Temple B’nai Sholom

Temple B’nai Sholom

Temple B?nai Sholom is a synagogue in Quincy, Illinois. It was built in 1870 in the Moorish Revival style.The original, 80 foot high, twin minaret-style towers were damaged by a tornado in 1947 and not replaced....
, Quincy, Illinois

Quincy, Illinois

Quincy, Illinois, known as the "Gem City", is a city on the Mississippi River in Adams County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census the city had 40,366 people and serves as the county seat of Adams County, Illinois....
, 1870

Central Synagogue

Central Synagogue

The Central Synagogue is located at 652 Lexington Avenue on the corner of 55th Street , Manhattan, New York City, New York. Built in 1872 in the Moorish Revival style as a copy of Budapest's Doh?ny Street Synagogue , it pays homage to the Jewish existence in Moorish Spain ....
, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York, 1872

Vine Street Temple, Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, Tennessee, 1874

B'nai Israel Synagogue (Baltimore), Maryland, 1876

Temple Adath Israel

Temple Adath Israel

Temple Adath Israel, is a synagogue in Owensboro, Kentucky with a whimsically charming Moorish Revival facade. The front of the modest building, features a gothic-arched door flanked by a pair of gothic-arched windows punctuated by four pilasters....
, Owensboro, Kentucky, 1877

Prince Street Synagogue

Prince Street Synagogue

Prince Street Synagogue , in the Springfield/Belmont, Newark, New Jersey neighborhood, is the Oldest synagogues in the United States still standing in Newark, New Jersey....
(Oheb Shalom,) Newark, New Jersey, 1884

Eldridge Street Synagogue

Eldridge Street Synagogue

The Eldridge Street Synagogue, built in 1887, is National Historic Landmark synagogue on Manhattan's Lower East Side....
, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, 1887

Congregation Beth Israel of Portland, Oregon, 1888 (no longer standing)

Park East Synagogue

Park East Synagogue

Park East Synagogue is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in New York City.Congregation Zichron Ephraim was established by Bernard Drachman and Jonas Weil to promote Orthodox Judaism as an alternative to Reform Judaism popular on the Upper East Side....
, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York, 1889

Gemiluth Chessed, Port Gibson, Mississippi, 1891

Temple Beth-El, Corsicana, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, 1898-1900

Ohabei Shalom

Ohabei Shalom

Ohabei Shalom is a large, Reform_movement_in_Judaism synagogue in Brookline, Massachusetts under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi John Franken, Cantor Randall Schloss and Rabbi Emerita, Emily Gopen Lipof....
, Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston, Massachusetts and Newton, Massachusetts....
, 1925

Congregation Ohab Zedek

Congregation Ohab Zedek

Ohab Zedek, sometimes abbreviated asOZ, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Manhattan, New York City noted for its lively, youthful congregation....
, Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York, 1926

Congregation Rodeph Shalom

Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Congregation Rodeph Shalom of Philadelphia, a founded in 1795, is the Oldest synagogues in the United States Ashkenazi synagogue in the Western hemisphere....
, Philadelphia, 1928

Shriners Temples

The Shriners

Shriners

The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, commonly known as Shriners and abbreviated A.A.O.N.M.S., established in 1870 is an Masonic appendant bodies body to Freemasonry, based in the United States....
, a fraternal organization, often chose a Moorish Revival

Moorish Revival

Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist Orientalism....
style for their Temples. Architecturally notable Shriners Temples include:

New York City Center
New York City Center

New York City Center, historically known as City Center of Music and Drama, and also known as New York City Center 55th Street Theater, is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival concert hall located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City....
, now used as a concert hall

Medinah Temple, Chicago, built by architects Huehl and Schmidt in 1912.

Tripoli Shrine Temple
Tripoli Shrine Temple

The Tripoli Shrine Temple is a Shriners mosque located in the Neighborhoods of Milwaukee of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building is based on the Taj Mahal in India and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1929.

Almas Temple, (1929,) 1315 O St., Washington. D.C.

Zembo Mosque, Harrisburg, PA

Acca Temple (Currently the Landmark Theater, colloquially known as 'The Mosque'), designed by Marcellus Wright, Sr. in association with Charles M. Robinson and Charles Custer Robinson in 1925 and completed in 1926.

Factories

Templeton's Carpet Factory, Glasgow, Scotland, 1889
Former Yenidze Cigarette Factory, Dresden, Germany, 1908 (here, the "minarets" are used to disguise smokestacks)

Sources

Naylor, David, Great American Movie Theaters, The Preservation Press, Washington D.C., 1987
Thorne, Ross, Picture Palace Architecture in Australia, Sun Books Pty. Ltd., South Melbourne, Australia, 1976

Assorted examples

External links

Moorish Revival in New York Architecture http://www.nyc-architecture.com/STYLES/STY-MoorishRev.htm