BELCOURT. - La Synagogue

Front Text - Collection Idéale P.S.;Text on the back -Carte Postale:Tous les Pays étrangers n'acceptent pas la Correspondance au recto. (Se renseigner à la Poste). Correspondance - Adresse;Back Printed Text Translation - Postcard:Not all the foreign countries accept the Correspondence on the front. (Get informations in the post office).;Production period - before 1910;Front Handwritten Text - (Near Algier);Front Period - beginning of the 20th century;Category - Synagogues;Description - This vertical postcard depicts a photograph of a Synagogue of Algiers, situated in the 'Belcourt' quarter. The monumental Synagogue is shown from outside: its facade is richly decorated with an imposing rose window at its center under the Hebraic inscription 'עבדו את ה´ בשמחה באו לפניו ברננה' (Serve God with gladness; Come before his presence with singing), stucco ornaments, and on its top the Tablets of Law (in the Bible it refers to the two pieces of stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments). At its entrance, we can see some children, richly dressed. [S.H];Back Handwritten Text - 50 229