Aloha Jewish Chapel
Aloha Jewish Chapel was built in 1975 on the grounds of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was designed by Vladimir Ossipoff [1] as the first free-standing Jewish chapel built by the United States government exclusively for Jewish worship.[2] (The Commodore Levy Chapel, Naval Station Norfolk, is the Navy's oldest Jewish Chapel, but it is part of a larger Chapel complex.) The congregation raised money for and purchased a new Torah scroll, which was dedicated on October 26, 2008. This was the first dedication of a new Torah scroll in the State of Hawaii. On the exterior of the building is the "Shalom" sculpture created in 1975 by Selma Mannheim of Los Angeles, California.
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Visitor information
The Chapel (Building 1514) is located just inside the Makalapa Gate.[3] Shabbat services are held at 7:30pm on Fridays and at 8:15am on Saturdays, and Torah study is held at 6:30pm on Mondays.[4] Unless prior arrangements are made, those attending services must have, or be accompanied onto the base by someone having a military identification card.
References
- Sakamoto, Dean; Britton, Karla; Murphy, Diana, eds. (2007). Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff. et al. New Haven, CT, USA: Honolulu Academy of Arts and Yale University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-300-12146-9. OCLC 488550784.
- Tigay, Alan M. (January 2009). "The Jewish Traveler: Honolulu". Hadassah Magazine. Hadassah. 90 (5): 28. ISSN 0017-6516. OCLC 610586821. Archived from the original on 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
- "Pearl/Harbor Chapels". [CNIC Headquarters]. Washington, DC: Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC). Retrieved 2013-04-12.
- "Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Chapels". [CNIC Headquarters]. Washington, DC: Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC). Retrieved 2013-04-12.