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The Hobart Synagogue.

The Hobart Synagogue, in Hobart, Tasmania, is remarkable both for being the oldest synagoguein Australia and for being a rare example of the Egyptian Revival style of synagogue architecture.

The Egyptian Revival building was constructed in 1845.The trapezoidal shape of the windows and the columns with lotus capitals are characteristic of the Egyptian Revival style.

The Hobart Synagogue Ark contains multiple Torah scrolls thought to be as old as the synagogue. One of these scrolls was donated by Lady Rachel Ezra of Calcutta, India, though it is probably of Syrian origin, in 1951 and is kept in an ornamental silver casing in the Sephardi style.

On display is a Memorial Sefer Torah from Czechoslovakia that is one of the 1,564 scrolls seized from desecrated synagogues by the Nazis.

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