Rego Park Jewish Center
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- City
- Queens, NY
The Rego Park Jewish Center is a Conservative synagogue in Rego Park, Queens, designed by the firm Frank Grad & Sons and completed in 1948 in the Art Deco Streamline Moderne style. Its facade features a mosaic by Hungarian-born artist A. Raymond Katz. The building is listed on both the New York State and National Register of Historic Places.
the building
Katz mosaic facade. The building's facade is distinguished by a mosaic designed by Hungarian-born artist A. Raymond Katz, a Streamline Moderne flourish that sets the synagogue apart on its Rego Park street.
the style
The building's Art Deco Streamline Moderne design, with its smooth lines and Moderne massing, was a fashionable idiom for synagogue construction in the postwar 1940s.
More on Streamline Modernesignificance
Listed on both the New York State and National Register of Historic Places.
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