Congregation Rodeph Sholom

7 West 83^rd Street

Erected 1929

Records concerning the Rodeph Sholom commission are skeletal at best (a single line in the 1938 publication Design & Craftsmanship in Metals: The Creative Art of Oscar B. Bach, by Matlack Price).  No date is given nor are any specifics mentioned of the nature of the commission, however, depictions of Bach’s mausoleum door designs relate directly to the Ark for Rodeph Sholom dated 1929.  Concurrent with the Rodeph Sholom commission, Bach executed masterful work in bronze and iron for two more of New York City’s sacred spaces, among them Temple Emanu-El in 1929 and The Riverside Church in 1930. 

Scroll down to see the doors over the Holy Ark Oscar Bach designed for Congregation Rodeph Sholom.

Overall views of doors in bronze, gold leaf and enamel

Details of iconography on panels of doors

Friends of Oscar Bach are grateful to Operations & Benefits Manager, Gennifer Solomon, for her assistance in providing us the opportunity to photograph the Oscar Bach designs for Congregation Rodeph Sholom.