Temple Sinai, Religious landmark in Sumter, United States

Temple Sinai is a brick synagogue at 11-13 Church Street, on the corner of West Hampton Avenue in Sumter, South Carolina. Its 1912 Moorish Revival sanctuary faces Church Street, with castellated domed towers flanking the entrance. Eleven drapery glass windows, mostly 5 by 20 feet, depict scenes from the Tanakh. Behind it, the 1932 Barnett Memorial Addition and the 1956 Hyman Brody Building complete the complex.

The structure was completed in 1912 following the merger of two Jewish organizations in 1895. Subsequent expansions added new spaces and functions to meet community needs.

The congregation, officially the Sumter Society of Israelites, formed in April 1895 by merging the Hebrew Cemetery Society and the Sumter Hebrew Benevolent Society. Its eleven drapery-glass windows, each 5 by 20 feet, depict scenes from the Tanakh and echo the shape of the castellated domed towers flanking the entrance. Since 2018 the building has housed the Temple Sinai Jewish History Center, created with the Sumter County Museum, including a section on the Holocaust and Sumter's ties to it.

The synagogue stands at 11-13 Church Street, on the corner of West Hampton Avenue, with the sanctuary facing Church Street and the Barnett Memorial Addition facing West Hampton Avenue. The Jewish History Center exhibit, created with the Sumter County Museum, opened to the public on June 2, 2018, and includes a section on the Holocaust and Sumter's ties to it. The congregation's archives are held in the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston.

The congregation's archives were donated to the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston, so the records of Sumter's Jewish community are kept in Charleston rather than locally. The stained glass windows are drapery glass, and all but one round window over the entrance portico measure 5 by 20 feet.