Lippmann Partnership

At nightfall on Fridays and all day on Saturday, the Shabbat (the Hebrew Sabbath), the Emanuel Synagogue campus in Sydney’s Woollahra welcomes a vibrant community. The congregation enters from Ocean Street, one of east Sydney’s grand arterial roads, via a generous forecourt with mature trees and greenery. After some mingling and exchange, worshippers cluster and disperse to distinct rooms and modes of prayer. From a traditional Masorti Service conducted in Hebrew to contemporary interpretations in Progressive Service, from the Shabbat Live Service with instruments and melodies to the Renewal Service prompting reflection, parallel and sequential communions at Emanuel Synagogue have embraced the diversity of Jewish faith for more than six decades. The recent addition of the New Sanctuary and the reconfigured kindergarten by Lippmann Partnership observe and amplify this heterogeneous ambition.

“Synagogue is a spirit continually expressing what it wants to be; To be– Louis Kahn