What is a gallery in a synagogue?

Answer 1

The Ezrat Nashim (עזרת נשים) or Ladies' Section/Gallery exists only in Orthodox Synagogues. In those synagogues, the women sit apart from the men in order to help both the men and the women focus on the prayers instead of on each other. The Ezrat Nashim is where the women sit.

Answer:

Orthodox synagogues have separate seating areas for men and women during services. In many synagogues, the women sit upstairs in a balcony. This is called the women's section, or ladies' gallery.

In other synagogues the women's section can be adjacent to or behind the men's section, but separated by a curtain or other partition.

Answer 2

Traditionally, women and men sit separately in order to better concentrate on the prayers. Each group may be on a different side of the synagogue (with a partition in between), or the women may be in a raised balcony (gallery).

Answer 3

Not all synagogues have a gallery, but the word refers to the women's section, which is sometimes built like a gallery. See also:

More about Jewish prayer and synagogues

Answer 4

Traditionally, women and men sit separately in order to better concentrate on the prayers. Each group may be on a different side of the synagogue (with a partition in between), or the women may be in a raised balcony (gallery).See also the Related Link.

More about Jewish prayer services

Answer 5

It's a museum