Bet Keneset ha-Gra, Heritage synagogue in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Bet Keneset ha-Gra is a medium-sized Bauhaus-style synagogue at 42 HaYarkon Street in the Ma'ah Shearim neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, with about two hundred seats. Its eastern wall holds the Torah ark, and to its right a glass frame displays a parchment sheet listing the prayer rite and customs according to the Vilna Gaon. A niche in the southern wall, closed with glass doors, holds the eighteen books written by Rabbi Yosef Zvi HaLevy.

Founded in 1934 (5694) by Rabbi Yosef Zvi HaLevy, head of the Tel Aviv rabbinical court, and Rabbi Eliyahu Landa, a great-grandson of the Vilna Gaon. The cornerstone was laid on 20 Tammuz 5694 after Mayor Meir Dizengoff allocated the last plot in the Ma'ah Shearim neighborhood. In 1936 Dizengoff, aged 75, was called to the Torah there; he died weeks later.

The synagogue is named after the Vilna Gaon, and its founding rules require prayer only in the Gaon's rite, with no changes to custom. A glass frame right of the Torah ark on the eastern wall holds a parchment sheet listing the prayer rite and its customs. Each year on the seventh night of Passover, a "Song of the Sea" ceremony was held near the shore, and on 19 Tishrei, the Gaon's yahrzeit, a Simchat Beit HaShoeva celebration.

The synagogue stands at 42 HaYarkon Street in the Ma'ah Shearim neighbourhood, a short walk from the Tel Aviv beachfront. It is an active house of prayer, so visits fit around the daily services, which have long included a vatikin minyan at sunrise plus two more shacharit minyanim. Men and women sit separately, and modest dress is expected.

On the southern wall, a small niche with glass doors holds the eighteen books written by Rabbi Yosef Zvi HaLevy, the synagogue's founder and rabbi. The eastern wall, right of the Torah ark, displays a parchment sheet listing the prayer rite and customs according to the Vilna Gaon. Cantor Moshe Novack, who came from David-Horodok in Belarus, served here from 1938 to 1953 and composed melodies still kept in the synagogue's prayer books.