Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author

03 January 2011

New Zealand Odyssey: Ex-Synagogue, Bowen Street, Auckland


  
How do you get rid of graffiti? Answer, you get a professional to use them as a palimpsest for another graffito. This astonishing effort graced a retaining wall on Bowen Street below the old Auckland synagogue built in 1885. I had fun drawing it and can claim not to have left so much paint on the floor as the painters did on the footpath.

The synagogue was a copy of one in Glasgow and thus plagiarized by a certain Edward Bartley, architect. The Jewish community moved out in 1969 whereupon the temple became home to an operatic society after which it became a bank. A certain irony there - the temple becomes home to money lenders; I wonder what Jesus would have said?

© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz


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