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Joseph Avis
17th–18th Centuries
Joseph Avis was a Quaker carpenter, joiner, and merchant tailor in the City of London in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He worked under the architects Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke on reconstruction projects in London following the Great Fire of 1666, including several churches, but is best known as the architect of the Bevis Marks Synagogue.
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Bevis Marks Synagogue, London
Joseph Avis, a Quaker carpenter, was commissioned to build the first synagogue in England following the readmission of Jews in 1656: the synagogue of London’s Spanish and Portuguese community, on…