[2] Rabbi Moses Cyrus Weiler returned to Johannesburg from his home in Israel to attend the consecration.
The school catered to disadvantaged students from Alexandra township in their final year of Matric.
[3] This came in defiance of the Group Areas Act which forbade black students from a township from studying in Morningside, then designated as a whites-only suburb.
[3] The school received financial support from donors and the Temple David congregation.
[2][4] Stained glass windows depicting the Ten Commandments and two large Temple menorah lights from the older sanctuary were removed and refitted in the new sanctuary.