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  Great Synagogue in Hrodna - photos of 1993

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Khaimovich, Boris, 1993
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Name/Title
Great Synagogue in Hrodna | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
16??, 1899
Active dates
Until 1940, from 1993
Reconstruction dates
2013
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A 17th-century synagogue preserves is interior structure and the bimah-support, although reconstructed in 1899 in Neo-Gothic style (interior).

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Sources
http://globus.tut.by/grodno/index6.htm#sinag Pivovarchik, Sergei, "Grodnenskie evrei: khronologiia sobytii" in Evrei Grodno: Ocherki istorii i kul'tury (Grodno, 2000), p. 12-13 with ill.; Michael Beizer, Our Legacy: The CIS synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem. 2002), p. 172, ill. on p. 60-61; Olga Sobolevskaia and Vladimir Goncharov, Evrei Grodnenshchiny: zhizn' do Katastrofy (Donetsk, 2005), pp. 75, 81-82, ill on p. 366; Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), p. 32 with ill.; Eleonora Bergman, Nurt mauretański w architekturze synagog Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w XIX i na początku XX wieku (Warszawa, 2004), ills. 225; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 350 with ill.; A. I. Lokotko, Arkhitektura evropeiskikh sinagog (Minsk, 2002), pp. 97-98 with ill., pp. 112-113 with ills.; Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 8: mehozot vilna, byalistok, novogrudek (Jerusalem, 2005), p. 207; Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ills. 24-27 on pp. 19-21; Subbotin A.P., V cherte evreiskoi osedlosti: Otryvki iz ekonomicheskikh issledovanii v zapadnoi i iugo-zapadnoi Rossii za leto 1887. Issue 2 (St. Petersburg, 1890), p. 9; Niunkaitė-Račiūnnienė, Aistė, Lietuvos žydų tradicinio meno ir simbolių pasaulis: Atvaizdai, vaizdiniai ir tekstai (Vilnius, 2011), ill. 130-133
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