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Date: 1936 Type: Synagogue Style: Art Deco Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°11'05.06" S 28°02'53.39" E Alt: 1785m

Transcription of Blue plaque: JOHANNESBURG CITY HERITAGE TEMPLE ISRAEL The first Reform synagogue in South Africa, Temple Israel opened in 1936 under the leadership of Rabbi M.C. Weiler. An Art Deco temple designed by the architects Kallenbach, Kennedy and Furner, the building also houses the archives of Progressive Judaism. Equality between men and women was promoted, and in 1949 the sisterhood at Temple Israel founded the M.C. Weiler School in Alexandra, to counter the inferior "Bantu Education" offered by the apartheid state. JOHANNESBURG HERITAGE FOUNDATION