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Obj. ID: 10248
Jewish Architecture
  Upper Synagogue in Kutaisi, Georgia

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Unknown, 1997
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Name/Title
Upper (Mtsvanekvavila) Synagogue in Kutaisi | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
1863?
Active dates
Reconstruction dates
Artist/ Maker
Unknown
Origin
Historical Origin
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Community type
Congregation
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Location
Georgia | Kutaisi (ქუთაისი)
| 57-59 Boris Gaponov St.
Site
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Construction material
Stone
Measurements
Height
10.5 m
Length
Width
13 m
Depth
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Condition
Extant
Yes
Documented by CJA
Yes
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Synagogue
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Architectural Significance type
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

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Significance Rating
3 (National)
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Ornamentation
Custom
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Direction/Location
Façade (main)
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Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Sources

Chlenov, M, ed. Stranitsy istorii i kul'tury evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.) (Moscow: Sefer, 2014)

Georgiyah: masa el hakehilot hayehudiyot: kutaisi, kulashi, oni (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2010).
Israel Tayar, Sinagoga - razgromlennaia, no ne pokorionnaia (Jerusalem, 1987), p. 94; Ariella Amar and Ruth Jacoby, Ingathering of the Nations. Treasures of Jewish Art: Documenting an Endangered Legacy (Jerusalem, 1998), p. 94-95 with ill.; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 248; Shota Bostanashvili, " Sinagogi Gruzii," in Stranitsy istorii i kul'tury evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.), ed. M. Chlenov (Moscow: Sefer, 2014), pp. 57 with ill.; Lili Baazova, "Synagogues and Synagogue Life in Georgia in the Postwar Era," in Yaacov Ro'i (ed.), Jews and Jewish Life in Russian and the Soviet Union (1995), pp. 290-300; Georgiyah: masa el hakehilot hayehudiyot: kutaisi, kulashi, oni (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2010), p. 24-25 with ill. Sivan Navon-Shoval, "Bein mizrah le-maarav: tziyurei ha-kir be-vatei ha-kneset be-kutaisi," Peamim 146-147 (2006), pp. 241-276.
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