File:Temple Beth Zion, Delaware Avenue, Bryant, Buffalo, NY - 52630938785.jpg

English: Built in 1964-67, this modern synagogue was designed by Max Abramovitz to house Temple Beth Zion, one of the oldest Jewish Reform congregations in the United States, founded in 1850. The building replaced a previous synagogue, built in 1890, which burned in 1961, located two blocks to the south on Delaware Avenue. The synagogue features a very distinctive sculptural design, reminiscent of a Reese’s cup, with ten concavely curved sections of the exterior walls, each representing one of the ten commandments, and large curtain walls of modern stained glass on the front and rear facades created by artist Ben Shahn, with skylights providing light at the curved panels around the perimeter of the cavernous interior space. The exterior is clad in stone panels with a shed roof that slopes down towards Buffalo Avenue and up towards the east side of the building, a front entrance with a concrete canopy and glass storefront, a concrete base, and a lower, semi-detached modernist rear wing clad in buff brick with ribbon windows on the first floor, concrete belt coursing, vertical window openings on the second floor, a low-slope roof, and wings to the east and west at the south end of the complex with shed and barrel vault roofs. The building is one of the most significant works of modernism in Buffalo, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.