On the summit, just above the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments directly, was a large copper Star of David.

The oriental style is a reference to the Taifa of Toledo, where, before 1492, peaceful and prosperous coexistence of Judaism with Islam and Christianity prevailed.

The combination of crescents and a Star of David explicitly refers to the peaceful co-existence with Islam in Toledo.

[2] In February 2018 the Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands sold the building, while rented out Congregation Beth Shoshanna, to Lenferink Groep Zwolle, the real estate firm of investors Carlus Lenferink and Geert-Harm van der Maat.

[3] A restaurant entrepreneur working with the firm, Ayhan Sahin, circulated plans to change the synagogue into a food hall.