Obj. ID: 24578
Jewish Architecture Synagogue in Mád, Hungary
The synagogue was built in 1795 in the Baroque style. The focus of the synagogue’s prayer hall is the bimah, with four Doric columns that bear nine bays of sail vaults. The decorative vault paintings were added during a renovation in the late nineteenth century. The synagogue was reconstructed in 2015 with generous support by the Cahnman Foundation and the Hungarian State.
The synagogue is in use (2018) and the nearby rabbi’s house serves as a museum and yeshiva.
sub-set tree:
https://www.wmf.org/project/m%C3%A1d-synagogue
http://synagogues.hu/zsinagoga/mad
http://www.greatsynagogue.hu/blog/?page_id=610
Gerõ, László, Magyarországi zsinagógák (Budapest, 1989), pp. 104-106;
Gazda, Anikó, Zsinagógák és Zsidó községek Magyarországon (Budapest, 1991);
Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman, Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia, 2000), p. 329;
Rudolf Klein, Zsinagógák Magyarországon, 1782–1918: Fejlődéstörténet, tipológia és jelentőség / Synagogues in Hungary, 1782–1918: Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance (Budapest: TERC, 2011), ills. 4.31, 4.49, 4.66-79;
Wirth, Péter, and Benkő, Ágnes, Ami megmaradt… Hegyaljai zsidó házak (Budapest: TERC, 2015), pp. 41-53;