Regarding praying facing Jerusalem in a synagogue, here ya go:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_inside_a_synagogue_do_people_worship
Muscatine
not dumb enough to fall for it anymore!
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"The old Synagogue in Muscatine faced north-west, towards Alaska not Palestine."
In the words of Ronald Reagan, "there he goes again"! The Muscatine synagogue I remember was at 617 Spring Street on the East side of the street!. I imagine, by "faced north-west" you mean the building faced north west and are referring to the front door of the building? But, as I recall, the people inside the synagogue, when praying, did not face the front door (Spring street), but rather the opposite direction (or back of the building). Even the Rabbi or Cantor did not face the front of the building when praying. Because of that they were facing what I would call ESE. If you face East South East in Muscatine, you have oriented your face in the general direction of Israel (generally the middle east), certainly not Alaska, unless you are planning on circumnavigating the globe.
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One other Synagogue I'm familiar with the worshipers faced due East. A third I think it was also East. It was in Prague so east would not be in the direction of Israel. |
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