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  Oranienburger Straße (New) Synagogue in Berlin, Germany

© By tian2992 from Guatemala (Neue Synagoge) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons, Photographer: Unknown, 2016
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Name/Title
Oranienburger Straße (New) Synagogue in Berlin | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Unknown
Date
1859-1866
Synagogue active dates
Until 1940
Reconstruction dates
bombed 1943, the hall demolished 1958, dome restored 1993
Origin
Germany | Berlin (Bundesland) | Berlin
| Oranienburger Straße
Historical Origin
Unknown
Community type
Congregation
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Location
Germany | Berlin (Bundesland) | Berlin
| Oranienburger Straße 29-31
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Extant
Documented by CJA
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Present Usage
Museum
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
E (No return)
Architectural Significance type
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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Architectural Significance: Style

One of the most influential examples of Neo-Moorish synagogues in Europe.

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
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4 (International)
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Custom
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Sources

Krinsky, Carol Herselle. Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning (New York, 1985).

W. Lübke, “Die neue Synagoge in Berlin,” Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, 1866, p. 6;

G. Knoblauch and F. Hollin (eds.), Die neue Synagoge in Berlin, entworfen und ausgeführt von Eduard Knoblauch, vollendet von August Stüler (Berlin, 1867; Reprint: Berlin, 1992);

Rachel Wischnitzer, The Architecture of the European Synagogue (Philadelphia, 1964);

Carol Herselle Krinsky, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning (New York, 1985);

Harold Hammer-Schenk, Synagogen in Deutschland: Geschichte einer Baugattung im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert (Hamburg, 1981).

Hans Martin Müller, "Synagogen und der Historismus des 19. Jahrhunderts," in: Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen Thies (eds.), Synagogenarchitektur in Deutschland vom Barock zum 'Neuen Bauen' (Braunschweig, 2000), pp. 37-41 with ill.;

Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen Thies (eds.), Synagogenarchitektur in Deutschland: Dokumentation zur Ausstellung "… und ich wurde ihnen zu einem kleinen Heiligtum … " - Synagogen in Deutschland (Petersberg, 2008), pp. 205-8 with ills.; S

harman Kadish, The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History (New Haven and London, 2011), p. 96;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Synagogue,_Berlin

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