Alhambra Cinema (Israel)

The Alhambra Cinema is a 1937 Art Deco style building on Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, designed by Lebanese architect Elias Al-Mor, and originally built as a cinema.Throughout its history it has been active as an Palestinian cultural institution (in Mandatory Palestine), again as a cinema after the establishment of Israel, and as a theatre after 1963.[3] It became a cultural centre and hosted famous Arab artists such as Umm Kulthum, Farid al-Atrash and Leila Mourad.[5] Photos from 1937, during the Arab revolt in Palestine, show light bulbs fitted as a permanent fixture at the top of the building's turret.[2] Starting in 2010 the building, affected by decades of transformations, underwent restoration and refurbishment, and in 2012 it was inaugurated as an Israeli and regional centre for Scientology.
Alhambra Cinema in 1937, with a Palestinian Arab flag on the turret
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