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Obj. ID: 15688
  Architecture  Great Synagogue in Iaşi, Romania

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Khaimovich, Boris, 1996
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Name/Title
Great Synagogue in Iaşi | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
1657-1682
Active dates
Reconstruction dates
1761 (rebuilt), 1822 (rebuilt), 1863 (rebuilt), 1977 (after earthquake), 2015
Artist/ Maker
Unknown
Historical Origin
Community type
Congregation
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Location
Romania | Moldavia | Iaşi
| 7 Sinagogilor St.
Site
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
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Direction/Location
Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
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Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Sources

Streja, Aristide and Lucian Schwarz, Synagogues of Romania ([Bucharest]: Hasefer Publishing House, 1997), p.109, 189, ills. 90-93.

Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images, №7332769, №7334021, №62241, №60804;

Beit Hatefutzot, №2397, №2398, №128626, №4379;

Paul Cernovodeanu, “The Jews of Moldova and Wallachia During the Phanariot Regime (1711–1821),” in The History of the Jews in Romania, vol. 1: From Its Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century, ed. Paul Cernovodeanu (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2005), p. 99;

M.A. Halevy, “Comunităţile evreişti din Iaşi şi Bucureşti, pînă la Zaveră (1821),” Sinai: Anuar de studii judaice 3 (Bucharest, 1931), p. 79;

I. Kara, Contribuţii la istoria obştii evreilor din Iaşi (Bucharest, 1997), pp. 74-78;

Pinkas Hakehilot: Romania, eds. Jean Anchil and Theodor Lavi (Jerusalem, 1980), vol. 1, p. 146;

Lucian Zeev Herşcovici, "Iaşi", The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, vol. 1, p. 793;

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2016/10/13/world-monuments-fund-restoration-work-update-iasi-and-venice

http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/09/18/update-restoration-of-great-synagogue-in-iasi-romania-nears-completion

http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2018/12/06/romania-the-great-synagogue-of-iasi-is-rededicated

https://www.wmf.org/project/great-synagogue-iaşi
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