Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue
Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, most often spelled Tiferet Israel, also known as the Nisan Bak Shul, after its co-founder, Nisan Bak was a prominent synagogue between 1872 and 1948 in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, before 1948
Acquisition Scroll, 1872
Preparing for prayer, c.1940
Interior showing raised bimah topped by ornate ironwork, vintage postcard c. 1900.
Nisan Bak was a leader of the Hasidic Jewish community of the Old Yishuv in Ottoman Palestine. He was the founder of two Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Kirya Ne'emana and a Yemenite Jewish neighborhood, and builder of the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, also known as the Nisan Bak Shul.
Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, also known as the Beit Knesset Nisan Bak, c. 1940
Kirya Ne'emana in 1925