View from behind the current mekhitse (the wall separating the women's section).

Inside from the courtyard entrance, you go upstairs to enter at the back of the main sanctuary. Facing the bima, the Rebbe’s study is the room straight ahead on the right, and the Beys Midrash is on the left (views in other pictures, below). They still (or once again) hold Hebrew classes a few times a week, with about 12-15 adult students. The old grandeur is still there, but it’s sorely lacking for paint, heating, and a wide range of basic upkeep repairs. The ceilings are huge with lots of fancy windows, curved at the tops. Bits of broken decorative detail remains here and there. The center bima, for reading the torah, is rebuilt, and there is a small lectern at the front, near the new, simple ark. The old women’s section, upstairs in the back, is now used for storage. The women still sit separately, behind a small wall in the back of the sanctuary, which you can just see over if you stand up. A few Jewish wall calendars and paper Hebrew banners are tacked around. They do not have a matching set of prayer books. Rather, they use whatever collection of donated sidurim they can gather. Several were donated by American congregations when their congregations updated to newer editions. [Click here for personal notes from S. R. Juni, Sept. 1997]