Obj. ID: 9134
Jewish Architecture Beit Tfila Benyamin in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) - Torah ark
To the main object: Beit Tefilah Benyamin Synagogue in Chernivtsi - Eastern Wall
The compositional center of the synagogue’s decoration is the Aron Kodesh, a wooden cabinet containing the Torah scrolls, placed into a niche in the eastern wall. It is crowned with two-dimensional gilded lion figurines holding the Tablets of the Covenant and framed with wall paintings. In the upper part of the niche shaped like a lancet arch, an eagle is depicted. Below the eagle a quotation from the Bible is spelled out: As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, hovereth over her young (Deuteronomy, 32,11) The niche of the Aron Kodesh is flanked by painted columns and a painted scarlet curtain with golden embroidery and tassels, suggesting associations with the Tabernacle and the Temple with its columns, Yachin and Boaz.
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Name/Title
Beit Tfila Benyamin in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) - Torah ark | Unknown
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Date
1923
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Iconographical Subject
C | Crown
T | Tablets of the Law
H | Heraldic composition | Supporters | Two lions
C | Curtain
C | Columns
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T | Tablets of the Law
H | Heraldic composition | Supporters | Two lions
C | Curtain
C | Columns
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
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Ornamentation
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Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
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Location of Reader's Desk
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Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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