mega-synagogue

plural mega-synagogues · alternative rare megasynagogue

1. JudaismrareAn unusually large synagogue.First known use 20th c.

   On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, there is a mega-synagogue called B’nai Jeshurun, known as “BJ” to its members.

   2021, Amanda Ripley, chapter 7, in High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, New York: Sim & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 237

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   He wanted His prophet to think bigger than reaching one or two, bigger than a Torah study group, bigger even than a mega-synagogue.

   1996, Daniel Lupton, I Like Church, But…, Destiny Image Publishers, →ISBN, page 30