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Date: c1907 Type: Synagogue Status: Demolished Street: Roeland St   Click to view large map Coordinates: 33°55'47.00" S 18°25'17.63" E Alt: 26m

(SAWW 1910; Radford 1979:123) The building was located on the corner of Roeland St and Buitenkant St, adjacent to No.56, which started out as a Seventh Day Adventists' Church and later became the head office of Lifeline/Childline. (Gerald Humphrey, March 2018) It was used by the Agudat Achim/New Hebrew Congregation c1902-c1952. This congregation then moved to the new Schoonder Street Synagogue in Gardens, which was later demolished and replaced with an apartment complex. (Juan-Paul Burke, January 2020) The Roeland St Synagogue was replaced with a mixed-use building of offices and apartments, with a restaurant/coffee shop on street level. The building's name "Temple House" refers to the erstwhile synagogue. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. References: Oxley, John. 1992. Places of Worship in South Africa. Halfway House: Southern Book Publishers. pg 40-42 Radford, D. 1979. The architecture of the Western Cape, 1838-1901. A study of the impact of Victorian aesthetics and technology on South African architecture. Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis. Dept of Arch. University of the Witwatersrand. pg 123