Download Temple Beth Israel, Macon, GA

Temple Beth Israel, Macon, GA
Style
F305
in coves
Restoration Architect: Daren P. Schnee, AIA
Photography: WalterElliott.com©2012
© The Lighting Quotient 2012
Sanctuary Dome:
Dimensions: 21'-4" diameter x 9'-6" tall
Lighting: (20) F305-T124-S-00-1-00-0 nominal 2' fixtures, with each unit centered between the existing ribs
Estimated illuminance: 20 fcai on dome surfaces
Estimated power density: 1.5 W/sf of dome footprint
elliptipar Style F305
Temple Beth Israel is a Reform
synagogue that traces its founding
to 1859, when 78-member
Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth
Israel conducted Orthodox services
in German and Hebrew in a rented
room. The congregation completed
its first temple in 1874 and joined the
Reform Union of American Hebrew
Congregations around 1880. By the
turn of the century, the Moorishstyle temple’s location on the main
market street in town became too
noisy for Saturday services and a
new property was purchased. The
first services in the new temple were
held in 1902.
The landmark neoclassical temple
is topped with a central dome,
and the sections of the dome’s
interior radiate from a stained glass
window of the all-seeing eye of God.
Smooth columns with Ionic and
Corinthian elements and additional
stained glass windows provide the
major decorative elements. Brass
chandeliers light parts of the interior;
recently one near the dome and
some previous fixtures lining the ribs
inside the dome were removed in
favor of cove lighting.
The new F305 cove lights replaced a system of exposed
incandescent globe lamps, which had been surfacemounted on each rib of the dome.
Twenty elliptipar Style F305 cove
lights provide interior uplighting for
the dome, positioned on the ledge
at the base of the radiating ribs. The
small fixtures with T5 lamps form
overlapping fields of light to create a
uniform wash. The change in lighting
not only accentuates the details of
the entire dome with glare-free light,
it also makes the dome a source of
reflected light for the temple’s interior.
ACCESSIBLE
ATTIC SPACE
Style F305 is Cradle to Cradle
Certified , designating
environmental safety and
reusability in component
materials.
CM
NEW PIANO HINGE
PANELING REINSTALLED
AS ACCESS PANEL
EXISTING WOOD PANELING
FACE OF EXISTING
BEAM BEYOND
NEW COVE LIGHT
NEW BLOCKING
NEW CROWN MOLDING
Courtesy Daren P. Schnee AIA
Style F305’s integral ballast
channel facilitates throughwiring of continuous rows.
Adjacent reflectors can be
joined and adjusted in unison
when installed in straight runs.
Final aiming orientations are
secured by locking set screws.
Cradle to Cradle
Certified CM is a
certification mark
licensed by the
Cradle to Cradle
Products Innovation
Institute.
EXISTING CROWN MOLDING
The F305 mounting detail allows for rear maintenance
access from an attic space above the dome and ocular
skylight.
U.S. Patents 5,550,725 and
D432,696; EPO 0710796
™
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