Temple B'nai Shalom (Brookhaven, Mississippi)

Temple B'nai Shalom is a former synagogue in Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, in the United States. The building has been used as a history museum since 2009, operated as Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society Museum.

History

The congregation formed in 1894; and a synagogue building was erected at Chickasaw and South Church Streets in 1896. The synagogue was deconsecrated in 2009 and the congregation donated the building to the Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society to be used as a county history museum.

Architecture

The white clapboard building is notable for its Moorish Revival Horseshoe arch windows, and for a truncated tower that "references the porthole of an Islamic minaret" with a slender Horseshoe arch window.