Sunday, December 09, 2007

Stained Glass Window on Barbados Stamp

Jewish, Postage Stamp Star of David

Star of David on a Barbados Stamp showing stained glass window (made in 1987) of the Nidhe Israel Synagogue.

Barbados Stamp 10c

Star of David Jewish, Postage Stamp

Star of David on 10c Barbados Stamp showing the entrance of the Nidhe Israel Museum in Bridgetown, Barbados scheduled to open in 2007. The building used from early 1700’s as a Jewish school for the children of approximately 800 Jewish residents of Barbados.

Barbados Stamp 5c

Barbados Stamp jewish star
Star of David on 5c Barbados Stamp showing local Synagogue Nidhe Israel interior, which was built in 1654 and rebuilt in 1987 using photographs from 1925 which were maintained in the Library of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.

Saturday, December 08, 2007

Matara, Sri Lanka

The walls of the "Star Fort" of Matara, Sri Lanka, are constructed in the shape of a six-pointed star. The fort was built by the Portuguese around 1550, but the Dutch captured it from them in 1640.

Chennai Theosophical Society

Theosophical Society Hexagram, logo
The logo of the Theosophical Society is composed of a hexagram and of other symbols. Picture is courtesy of pickamuffin who published it on Flickr

Bialystok Pebbles

Bialystok Pebbles Jewish star
Photo of unique Star of David made from pebbels in a modest park in Bialystok is courtesy of Stephanie Comfort, who published it on Flickr and who wrote in the caption:
This is THE MEMORIAL to the thousands of Jews killed in Bialystok! A Star of
David in pebbles, a stele with a Menorah on top and some twisted iron!!!


Friday, December 07, 2007

Marrakech, Morocco

Marrakech, Morocco Solomon’s seal
Photo of Solomon’s seal in an administrative courtyard is courtesy of Dave Hoggan from Picasaweb who shot it a few months ago in Marrakech, Morocco