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© “Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue” Archives, Photographer: Česonytė, Kornelija, 2006

The building of the synagogue is on the other side of straight and rather wide Šaltupio Street bordering the former shulhoyf in the
east. The former synagogue is the major construction on the eastern side of the street and dominates the environment.

This brick synagogue, whose historical name is unknown, consisted of two tiers in the western parts, and had an interior staircase. Judging from the inventory plan from 1949, the prayer hall was located on the eastern side; it could be reached through a door in the middle of the northern façade and, probably, from the west, through the vestibule. Another door was located on the left side of the southern façade and probably led to the staircase and the women’s section on the first floor. The western façade facing Šaltupio Street was symmetrical, with a portal in the central part, which could be reached by a bifurcated exterior staircase. On each side of the portal, two windows were arranged in two tiers. The eastern façade had a symmetrical composition as well: two pairs of high windows flanked the widest central pier, on which the Torah ark was located. The northern and the southern façades were partly composed of two floors. The lesenes emphasize the building’s corners and the western portal is surrounded with a flat molding.

When surveyed in 2007, the building was divided into two levels, plastered, and covered with a hipped roof of asbestos sheets. It contained offices and two garages, but retained the former synagogue’s original ground plan contour with the corner lesenes and the
portals in the western and southern façades.

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Synagogue at 11 Šaltupio St. in Anykščiai | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
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Date
1850-1914?
Active dates
Reconstruction dates
Artist/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
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Unknown
Community type
Congregation
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Location
Lithuania | Utena County | Anykščiai
| 11 Šaltupio St.
Site
Unknown
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Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
Material Additions
Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
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Colors
Construction material
Measurements
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Subject
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Condition
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
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Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
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Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
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Unknown
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Unknown
0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
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Ruling
Pricking
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Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
Coin Series
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Signature
Colophon
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Watermark
Hallmark
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Group
Group
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Trade Mark
Binding
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Summary and Remarks
Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography

CJA & Lita documentation;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996) p. 154;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 47;

Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), ill. on p. 101 (interior), YV 10224 (1926);

www.zydai.lt/lt/content/viewitem/618/; ills. in ww.zydai.lt/lt/content/viewitem/689/;

Dovid Katz, Lithuanian Jewish Culture (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2004), ill. on p. 167;

David Matityahu Lipman, Le-toldot ha-yehudim be-kovna u-slobodka (Keidan, 1931), p. 70;

Niunkaitė-Račiūnnienė, Aistė, Lietuvos žydų tradicinio meno ir simbolių pasaulis: Atvaizdai, vaizdiniai ir tekstai (Vilnius, 2011), iil. 3, 4

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