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Material &
Technique
Brick
plastered
walls, wooden roof constructions.
Measurements
Maximum
20.40 m
Maximum
24.33 m
Maximum Length: 31.14
m
Directions
Axis: west -
east
Main facade: west
Entrance: west
Torah ark: east
Apse: none
Niche: east
Bimah: centre
Platform: none
Seating: facing the Torah ark
Women’s section: second and third floors in the western part of the
building.
Prayer orientation: east
Jerusalem: southeast
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Fig. 1. Site plan
(1- Great Synagogue, 2 –
Choral Synagogue, 3 – Jewish hospital). |
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Description
At some unknown
time, after the completion of the synagogue, a staircase extension was
added to the north side of the west portico, obstructing its lower
window. The extension has two doors in its lower tier. One,
on the north side, opens to the staircase leading
to the women's section on the third floor; another,
on the west side, opens to a staircase leading
to the women's section on the second floor (fig.
16). Two round-arched windows on the second
tier of the west side light the staircase to the third floor. The
facades of the extension are framed by rusticated corner
pilaster-strips; a similar pilaster
is situated between the windows on the west side.
As a
result of building the staircase, the northern window on the second
tier of the west facade was bricked up. |
Fig. 2. Northwest view.
Photo 1930s (Gold,
vol. 1, plate 4). |
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Fig. 4. Southwest view. |
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On the
portico's south side is a door to another
staircase, which also leads to the women's section on the second
floor. A short flight of stairs leads to that door.
At present, a single
story building with a lean-to roof is attached to the north facade of
the synagogue (figs.
2,
5,
6). This
attachment, which
was built after the completion of the synagogue,
caused the blocking of the first tier windows of the prayer hall and
the opening
of a door from the hall to the attachment
(fig. 11).
Apparently, this attachment was
remodelled in the Soviet era. Currently
it has seven rectangular openings on its north wall, three openings on
the east wall and a door on the west wall
(fig. 19). |
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Fig. 5. North facade,
western part. |
Fig. 6. North facade,
eastern part. |
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Fig. 7. Northeast view. |
Fig. 8.
Northeast corner. |
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Fig. 9.
South facade. |
Fig. 10.
Southeast corner. |
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During the Soviet era, when
the building became a factory, some changes were made to the portico:
two arched doorways became rectangular, the south window on the third
tier became rectangular, and the upper window on the south side was
blocked (fig. 9).
At that time, the main
hall was divided into three floors.
The openings
from the hall
to the women's sections
were bricked up, and a door was open to the second level
(figs. 14,
15).
A door was cut through the Torah niche, and the stairs leading to it
are covered on the exterior by a wooden construction (fig.
10).
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Fig. 11.
Ground plan.
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Fig.
12.
Plan of the second floor.
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Fig.
13. Plan of the third floor.
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Fig.
14.
Longitudinal section (1-1), view towards south.
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Fig.
15.
Latitudinal section (2-2), view towards west.
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Fig.
16.
Latitudinal section of the western portico (3-3), view towards west.
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Fig.
17.
West facade.
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Fig.
18.
East facade.
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Fig.
19.
North facade.
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Fig. 20.
South facade. |
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Decoration
Program
Unknown.
Suggested
Reconstruction
See
stage I document.
History
See
Building stages document.
Conditions
Satisfactory.
Remarks
None.
Bibliography
See
Building stages document. |
Fig. 21. Easternmost window of the south facade. |
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