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Obj. ID: 6020
Jewish Architecture
  Great Synagogue in Oshmiany - Prayer Hall

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Unknown,

The prayer hall is rectangular and its walls are divided by pilasters. It stands to reason that before the renovation of 1902, those pilasters bore the vaults which rested on a bimah-support in the center of the hall. In 1902 the vaults were replaced by an elaborate interior dome.

The women’s section is connected to the prayer hall through five large arches in the upper tier of the western wall. They probably were installed during the renovation of 1902 and then bricked up after WWII.

The upper parts of the pilasters, above the entablement, are decorated with sunken rectangles in which the zodiac signs are depicted.

The central pilasters flanking the Torah ark on the eastern wall are decorated with plaques painted to look like marble; two Stars of David decorate the wall on either side of the round window above the ark.

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Name/Title
Great Synagogue in Oshmiany - Prayer Hall | Unknown
Object Detail
Prayer hall
Monument Setting
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Date
1902
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Ornamentation
Custom
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Location of Torah Ark
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Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Documenter
Boris Khaimovich, Vladimir Levin | 1993, 2007
Author of description
Vladimir Levin | 2016
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Language Editor
Carmen Echevarria | 2016
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