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January 31, 2024

How America’s Most Revered Jewish Building Made Its Way around the World

The Chabad headquarters’ Tudor architecture.

Long the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim, 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood has been considered something of a sacred shrine since the death of the movement’s leader, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1994. For decades, his followers have built replicas of the building across the world for their local communities—not only in Jerusalem and several American cities but also in Brazil, Chile, Italy, Australia, and India. Adam Iscoe relates 770’s architectural history:

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