The Lloyd Street Synagogue rose, brick by brick, stone by stone, in 1845. For many years, families gathered there to pray and sing, listen and learn, and the elegant little building on Lloyd Street was filled with happiness. But one by one, the families moved away, until the building sat silent and empty. What would happen to the Lloyd Street Synagogue?

Jonathan Scott Fuqua’s vivid watercolors enliven this tale of hope and change. Told from the building’s perspective, The Synagogue Speaks traces the true history of the Lloyd Street Synagogue’s remarkable transformation from synagogue, to church, back to synagogue again.