Photographing the last days of a synagogue

A Muslim woman who couldn't afford her own camera makes beautiful photographs of an historic synagogue.

And this is the power of photography.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...last-synagogue-jewish-worshippers-nudrat-afza

Thanks for the link, Colin. Bradford and its surrounding area such as Saltaire are wonderful places and well worth a visit A great story but no mention of how she gets the film and prints made but then again this is a newspaper article and not aimed at our world of analogue photography.

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Great story, thanks for the link.

Nice story.

Bradford is an interesting place. In the 1990’s, despite being warned that Bradford was a “rough and dangerous place, I visited the National Museum of Film and Photography... and walked the streets. A very enjoyable visit. A decade or so later I found that my Irish ancestors lived in Bradford for 20 years of the early/mid 19th century... in a tenement slum area that was long ago cleared out and renewed.

Thanks for sharing the story! The amazing part, in my opinion, is that the synagogue has been saved by the city’s Muslims. A little step toward world peace (and I’m pretty pessimistic as far as this topic is concerned..,)

Colin Corneau said:

A Muslim woman who couldn't afford her own camera makes beautiful photographs of an historic synagogue.

And this is the power of photography.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...last-synagogue-jewish-worshippers-nudrat-afza

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Awesome....... will dive into the article when i have more time.!
Thanks for the link

Would be good to see her work.

Chag sameach, God bless us, each and every one.

Although she can't afford her own camera, she is very well equipped:

Photographing inside the dimly lit synagogue posed particular challenges, even with top-of-the-range cameras, including a medium-format Bronica and an XPan Hasselblad given to her on permanent loan by Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire

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She obviously must have impressed people with her earlier work.

etn said:

Thanks for sharing the story! The amazing part, in my opinion, is that the synagogue has been saved by the city’s Muslims. A little step toward world peace (and I’m pretty pessimistic as far as this topic is concerned..,)

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This is fantastic. There may be a similar story in Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma. The Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue on 26st. Street had, as of 2014, a minimal congregation. When my wife and I visited, the caretaker, Mr. Moses Samuels, told us that the Muslim gentlemen in the adjoining shops helped do maintenance and repair the roof. We saw a Muslim fellow sweeping the stone walkway. Before World War II, Rangoon was a melting pot, with just about every religion represented among the residents. The city was a thriving commercial center, and Jewish merchants ran large trading companies and department stores. Many of the Jewish residents fled during the war, and the Burmese dictatorship in the 1960s ran off most of the remaining. I do not know the status as of 2019. (The image below is digital.)



More on Rangoon: https://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2014/12/burmese-days-7-rangoon-heritage-tour.html

Many are celebrating Jesus's birthday tomorrow.. born and died a Jew, of course.