When designing the synagogue, Förster made some innovations: he had an organ built and the Torah reader's platform was put before the Ark, not in the centre of the synagogue; but these innovations were rejected by the Orthodox (comprises the traditionalist branches of contemporary Rabbinic Judaism) majority of the city's Jews.
When designing the synagogue, Förster made some innovations: he had an organ built and the Torah reader's platform was put before the Ark, not in the centre of the synagogue; but these innovations were rejected by the Orthodox (comprises the traditionalist branches of contemporary Rabbinic Judaism) majority of the city's Jews.