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Bevis Marks Synagogue, London
Joseph Avis
1699–1701
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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.
The figurative underworld of a great city has no ventilation, housing or lighting problems. Rooks and crooks who live in the putrid air of crime are not denied the light of day, even though they…