Aloha Jewish Chapel

Aloha Jewish Chapel was built in 1975 on the grounds of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was designed by Vladimir Ossipoff [1] as the first free-standing Jewish chapel built by the United States government exclusively for Jewish worship.[2] (The Commodore Levy Chapel, Naval Station Norfolk, is the Navy's oldest Jewish Chapel, but it is part of a larger Chapel complex.) The congregation raised money for and purchased a new Torah scroll, which was dedicated on October 26, 2008. This was the first dedication of a new Torah scroll in the State of Hawaii. On the exterior of the building is the "Shalom" sculpture created in 1975 by Selma Mannheim of Los Angeles, California.

Interior of Aloha Jewish Chapel
In this Torah dedication ceremony participants write one of the last letters in a new Sefer Torah at the Aloha Jewish Chapel at Naval Station Pearl Harbor

Visitor information

The Chapel (Building 1514) is located just inside the Makalapa Gate.[3] Shabbat services are held at 7:30pm on Fridays and at 8:15am on Saturdays, and Torah study is held at 6:30pm on Mondays.[4] Unless prior arrangements are made, those attending services must have, or be accompanied onto the base by someone having a military identification card.

References
  1. Sakamoto, Dean; Britton, Karla; Murphy, Diana, eds. (2007). Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff. et al. New Haven, CT, USA: Honolulu Academy of Arts and Yale University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-300-12146-9. OCLC 488550784.
  2. Tigay, Alan M. (January 2009). "The Jewish Traveler: Honolulu". Hadassah Magazine. Hadassah. 90 (5): 28. ISSN 0017-6516. OCLC 610586821. Archived from the original on 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  3. "Pearl/Harbor Chapels". [CNIC Headquarters]. Washington, DC: Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC). Retrieved 2013-04-12.
  4. "Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Chapels". [CNIC Headquarters]. Washington, DC: Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC). Retrieved 2013-04-12.


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