Obj. ID: 21415
Jewish Architecture Beit Midrash Sheerit Bnei Emuna in Kraków, Poland
The Sheirit B'nei Emunah house of prayer (Hebrew: The Remaining Children of Faith) is located at 4 Bocheńska Street (registered property no. 552, address before 1939 also 4 Bocheńska Street).
The rectangular story building is made of stone. It has a seven-bay façade. Two arched entrances to the building look identical. The ground floor windows are topped with shaped frames, and the first floor windows are rectangular. The gable roof is covered with sheet.
It was built in 1914 according to the design by Kraków architect of Jewish origin Herman (Henry) Lamensdorf with which he was commissioned by the Sheirit B'nei Emunah Society of Prayer and Charity. A Talmudic school operated in the house of prayer at the same time. The Germans destroyed the interior of the building during World War Two but its framework remained intact. After the war the building was virtually undamaged, only the ceiling caved in a little and window panes were broken.
After 1945, the prayer house was used as furniture storerooms by the Interim National Administration (Polish: Tymczasowy Zarząd Państwowy) and its basements, owned by the Union of Lesser Poland Cooperatives (Polish: Związek Spółdzielni Małopolskich), were turned into grain storerooms. (Text from Virtual Shtetl).