Obj. ID: 17368
Jewish Architecture Cemetery chapel in the Lower town of Osijek, Croatia
The lower town Jewish cemetery was established in 1860. The modest chapel was built in the 1927. It was slightly damaged in the last war, but has since been repaired. The chapel has not been in use since the 1950s.
The building consists of three sections: a rectangular central section and octagonal eastern and western sections. The main approach to the building is from the north. The large entrance opening on the northern facade of the western section is currently bricked up. The western and central sections served as the ceremonial hall, which is now totally bare. The eastern section served as a room for ritual cleansing, it has two entrances on the north and south facades. The facades have no decoration. Side sections have tiled pavilion roofs, the central section has a tiled and saddle-shaped roof. The interior decoration did not survive, with the exception of inscriptions in Hebrew and Croatian in the eastern section.
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