Wikipedia's first sentence called it “part of the synagogue the house in context”. Today it says “private orthodox jewish synagogue that was built on the roof-top of 26 brunswick terrace”.
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Former Orthodox synagogue, now listed building, in Hove, England The Brunswick Terrace Synagogue , also sometimes called the Roof-top synagogue , was a private Orthodox Jewish synagogue that was built on the roof-top of 26 Brunswick Terrace, a terraced-row of houses on the Brunswick Estate in Hove , now a constituent part of the city of Brighton and Hove , in East Sussex , England , in the United Kingdom. The synagogue, completed in c. 1852 , consists of a small octagonal edifice on the top of a glass room built on the roof of the home of Philip Salomons on the Regency-era terrace house, that was built in the period between 1824 and 1830. Salomons and his family worshiped in the Ashkenazi rite . The synagogue, now disused, is part of a Grade I listed consecutive row of terraced houses that were heritage-listed in 1950.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
The "pepper-pot cupola" on top of 26 Brunswick Terrace was part of the synagogue The house in context, showing more of the terrace The Marriage of the Virgin shows the Temple at Jerusalem depicted in the shape of the Dome of the Rock . The Roof-top synagogue was a private synagogue built on the roof of the home of Philip Salomons on the Regency-era Brunswick estate in Hove , now a constituent part of the English city of Brighton and Hove . It is a small octagonal edifice on the top of a glass room forming part of the fourth floor (in British terminology, not counting basement or ground floors), in reference to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem .
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part of the synagogue the house in context
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private orthodox jewish synagogue that was built on the roof-top of 26 brunswick terrace
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