Hechal Yehuda Synagogue

The Hechal Yehuda Synagogue, on Ben Saruk Street north of the centre, is one of the most architecturally distinctive religious buildings in Tel Aviv. It serves the Sephardic Salonican community in the city and is open only at prayer times and for occasional events.

The interior continues the curved theme of the exterior, with white concrete vaults, no straight lines, and a dramatic light well over the central bimah. Worth a detour for the architecture even if you cannot enter.

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Built in 1980 by the Italian-Jewish architect Yitzhak Toledano, the synagogue's curving white concrete roof is unlike any other religious building in the city — a series of overlapping shell forms that resemble a tropical sea creature or, in the architect's own description, the curling pages of a Torah scroll.

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