The Görlitz Synagogue in Görlitz, Saxony, Germany, has been restored, and in July 2021 it reopened to the public as Cultural Forum Görlitz Synagogue (Otto-Müller-Straße 3, Görlitz; phone +49 3581 672410, www.synagoge-goerlitz.de [in German only]).
The mystery photo in our June issue showed the interior of a mosque in Conakry, Guinea, that was completed in 1982. The Grande Mosquée de Conakry, or the Conakry Grand Mosque, was built during the administration of Guinea's first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, with funding from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
The mosque has room for 10,000 men on the lower level and 2,500 women on the upper level. There is also space for an additional 12,500 worshipers in the mosque's large esplanade.
"Traveling alone through Greece in 1964, I met an American woman in Delphi traveling with two other people. They were going to visit her cousin .... She invited me to go with them to his home, which he had built for his family in a village up in the mountains beyond Delphi. ..."
(excerpt from Jean Mackey's letter)
15 days, 14 nights in GREECE. Departures Oct. 14, 2021 & April 28, 2022. Highlights: From Athens to Isthmus of Corinth/Ancient Nemea for 4th-century-BC Doric Temple of Zeus, site of Nemean Games/medieval Monemvasia for 12th-century Agia Sophia Church, wine tasting/Sparta/Caves of Diros/Temple of Zeus at Olympia/in Arcadia, Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai/Mycenaean citadel of Tiryns/Corinth/National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
