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It is not in a historic district, is it?
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Posted on: 2014/11/19 17:24
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I passed by a building in JC, I apologize, I forget where it is, it is now a Christian Church of some Protestant sect. You can see from the stain glass the building was synagogue at one time. I like how stain glass was preserve in the building. Buildings do have a historic history.
Posted on: 2014/11/19 15:27
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I hope the Historic Commission keeps a vigilant watch. There's a long history of muslims (and other religions) destroying the artifacts of those they don't agree with. The building is part of our cultural heritage and should not be defaced. They can build their own iconic building if they don't like their current location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
Posted on: 2014/11/19 15:02
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This building actually was a Church before it was purchased and converted to a Jewish Congregation
Posted on: 2014/11/19 15:01
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If it's a landmark building, I believe people would object. Preservationists are pretty rabid. I wonder if the mosque is going to try to argue some sort of religious exemption to the preservation rules. If so and they win, there's a paranoid side of me that wonders if it's the tip of the iceberg. What next? Would they demand that women passing by on the sidewalk be modestly attired - no bare arms or legs? That the clothing store a couple doors down cover up those "sexy" mannequins? That the bike lane be removed because women wearing shorts might ride their bikes in front of the mosque? If all this sounds farfetched, it's not. It's been happening in places like Williamsburg, where the ultra-Orthodox Jews have demanded the secular population acquiesce to their values.
Posted on: 2014/11/19 14:50
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One of the lions is already missing a portion of its face from an earlier attempt to remove. This was stopped by the Historic Commission.
Posted on: 2014/11/19 14:34
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If a Jewish congegation bought a deconsecrated Catholic Church, would anyone object to their removing the Christian iconography?
Posted on: 2014/11/19 14:33
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If a Jewish congegation bought a deconsecrated Catholic Church, would anyone object to their removing the Christian iconography?
Posted on: 2014/11/19 14:33
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As a landmarked building in a historic district, I thought any facade change would be a non-starter. Or am I wrong about that building's landmark status? Then again if there's one thing I've learned after all these years in JC, if you have enough money and the right connections, you can pretty much do what you want, the Historic Preservation Commission notwithstanding. They bought the building knowing it used to be synagogue and that it was a historic building would need to follow preservation rules. If that bothered them, they should've bought a different building.
Posted on: 2014/11/19 14:25
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Will they also request erasing of the stars of David from the facade?
Posted on: 2014/11/19 13:27
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It is a mosque unfortunately....
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Posted on: 2014/11/19 1:32
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This came up awhile back, I remember either the Historic Preservation or some other agency said no. I remember the sale of this property. The owners did not want the property to be used as a house of worship. It was a synagogue. The owner who brought the property said it was going to be used as a restaurant and gave the benches away. He was probably a shell person, because the property became a mosque. The owner would not sell if it was going to be used as a mosque or even a Catholic Church.
Posted on: 2014/11/19 1:23
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I got a notice from the VVPA that a meeting to be held today will have one of the following as an agenda item: Tuesday November 18th @7:30pm Barrow Mansion 83 Wayne Street ~Free & Open to All~ Derk Garlick, Architect & Ashraf Elshazly owner 294 Grove & 11 Wayne Street Rita McKenna, attorney and her clients, Derk Garlick & Ashraf Elshazly will present plans under consideration for two properties in our neighborhood 294 Grove Street: Owners of the Mosque would like to remove the lion statues from the front facade of their building 11 Wayne Street: Asking for variances in lot depth, rear yard set back and building coverage. The proposed renovation of the living space includes adding a 2-story addition above a pre-existing 2-story rear addition to increase the habitable living space. The interior will be extensively rehabilitated and converted to one 2-story 2 bedroom duplex and two larger 1 bedroom units for a total of three residential units. The footprint of the existing building will not be increased and the number of units will be decreased from 4 to 3. It would be sad if the lions were removed (unless there is something structurally unsafe about it).
Posted on: 2014/11/18 22:17
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