The Hekhal Haness Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת היכל הנס) is the largest synagogue in Geneva, Switzerland. On May 24, 2007, the synagogue was severely damaged...

Sephardic community. Its main synagogue, the Synagogue Hekhal Haness, is considered to be the most important Sephardic synagogue in Switzerland. A ring with...

Torah ark (also known as the hekhal, Hebrew: היכל, or aron qodesh, אֲרוֹן קׄדֶש) refers to an ornamental chamber in the synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls...

The Synagogue of El Tránsito (Spanish: Sinagoga del Tránsito), also known as the Synagogue of Samuel ha-Levi or Halevi, is a historic synagogue, church...

qodesh (Hebrew: אָרוֹן קׄדֶש) by Ashkenazi Jews and the hekhal (היכל) by Sephardic Jews. Synagogues are buildings for congregational worship, and thus require...

The same architectural layout of the temple was adopted in synagogues leading to the hekhal being applied in Sephardi usage to the Ashkenazi Torah ark...

Switzerland: Beth Yaakov Synagogue (Geneva), Hekhal Haness Synagogue (Geneva), Endingen Synagogue (Endingen, Switzerland), Lengnau Synagogue (Lengnau, Aargau)...

a Torah scroll (Sefer Torah) is housed in the Torah ark (Aron Kodesh or Hekhal), which in its turn is usually veiled by an embroidered parochet (curtain)...

Gaon held in world Jewish organizations, he was the founder of Hekhal Haness Synagogue in Geneva. Gaon's career in trade began as a trader of burlap bags...

and West Africa.[citation needed] The Hekhal dates from the seventeenth century and was imported from a synagogue which had been destroyed in Ancona, Italy...