Wednesday marked the completion of the custom-built sukkah on Healy Lawn in anticipation of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot at Georgetown. The sukkah, designed and constructed by architects Babak Bryan and Henry Grosman, will remain until the end the holiday on Sept. 25.
Sukkot is an eight-day harvest festival that began at sundown on Wednesday. The word sukkot is a plural of sukkah, which means “booth.” The sukkah is a symbolic dwelling that represents the temporary shelters the Israelites built in the desert wilderness on their way to the Promised Land.
