Q. Is there are recommended place to place the Ner Tamid in Shul?
A. Many of the Sefarim quoted above, mention that in a similar way to the Menorah of the Beis Hamikdash, it should placed in front and next to the Aron Hakodesh. However, most unusually, some place in the back.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a.