![Stephen Cassell explains that CBST's rabbi felt like their previous home was "like trying to find a 1970s lesbian bar--the synagogue was closeted." Now, as of the 2014 projected opening, the congregation will be located in a space designed with transparency, intimacy, and warmth. The flexible interior spaces are meant to do double- and triple-duty for its community, one of the country's oldest and most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) faith-based groups.
Cassell says of the impending visual presence for CBST: "One of the nice things we were able to do, since it's a modern synagogue, is interpret 'radical traditionalism.' Being able to put a modern design inside a traditional building alludes to how the [congregation] practices Judaism itself." Photo 1 of 6 in LGBT Synagogue in New York by ARO by Kelsey Keith](https://images2.dwell.com/photos/6063391372700811264/6133527967847768064/original.jpg?auto=format&q=35&w=160)
LGBT Synagogue in New York by ARO
Stephen Cassell explains that CBST's rabbi felt like their previous home was "like trying to find a 1970s lesbian bar--the synagogue was closeted." Now, as of the 2014 projected opening, the congregation will be located in a space designed with transparency, intimacy, and warmth. The flexible interior spaces are meant to do double- and triple-duty for its community, one of the country's oldest and most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) faith-based groups.
Cassell says of the impending visual presence for CBST: "One of the nice things we were able to do, since it's a modern synagogue, is interpret 'radical traditionalism.' Being able to put a modern design inside a traditional building alludes to how the [congregation] practices Judaism itself."