Find a future with a memory

End at Agudas Achim Synagogue, where the playful time-travel exercise must become more careful. Orthodox associations formed a union around 1929, raised funds and commissioned Otto Eisler to design a new place of worship, completed in 1935. The street facade concentrates its force in one large square gridded window; behind it, the prayer hall follows a traditional central arrangement. Modern form did not erase religious continuity. Then history broke the imagined day: the synagogue became a warehouse during the Second World War and was reconsecrated in September 1945. Do not treat that survival as a neat ending. Look at the restrained facade and consider which communities get included when a city calls itself modern—and who must fight to remain visible.