Gallery Depicts 770 Replicas All Over the World
Andrea Robbins traveled with her husband and fellow photographer Max Becher to capture images of the numerous replicas of Chabad Headquarters-770 Eastern Parkway that are scattered all across the globe. The photographs will be displayed in a unique gallery that will go on view next month in Manhattan.
From DNA Info:
A three-story Gothic revival brick building at 770 Eastern Parkway that serves as the physical and spiritual center of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish community and once served as the workplace of Grand Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson has spawned a mini-architectural boom across the globe.
The landmarked building is so important to Lubavitchers that more than a dozen spiritual followers have built replicas of it in locations as far away as Melbourne, Australia and Buenos Aires, Argentina — a worldwide phenomenon that sparked a mesmerizing set of photos that will go on view next month in Chelsea.
“The 770s are an insider message,” said photographer and longtime New Yorker Andrea Robbins, who traveled with her husband and fellow photographer Max Becher to document as many of the architectural replicas as possible.
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Love 770! And anything that depicts it !