Description:Image: Singer's Hill Window (photo by Brigitte Windsor)
In 1956, a scheme was launched to create new stained glass windows for Singer's Hill Jewish synagogue, marking one hundred years of worship in the buidling. A magnificent panorama of twenty six windows was completed by 1963.
This window represents Moses. A publication entitled 'The Stained Glass Windows of Singer's Hill Synagogue, Birmingham' (Birmingham City Archives (JA/2/G/12) gives the following account:
'The mighty figure of Moses on Mount Sania, holdinh the two Tablets of the Commandments, bestrides this magnificent window. Behind him are seen flashes of lightning, an echo of the biblical description " And all the peopole saw the thunderings and the lightning and the mountains full of smoke". The text is Exodus 31.15 [...]" And Moses went down from the mountain".