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Obj. ID: 1337
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  Great Synagogue in Tykocin, Poland

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 1992
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Name/Title
Great Synagogue in Tykocin | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
1642
Active dates
Reconstruction dates
18th century, 1970s
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Brick
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Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Museum
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Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style

One of the synagogues with so-called bimah-support. The inscription on this construction -- “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe” (Prov. 18:10) -- presumably explains its meaning.

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Interior wall paintings and paryer tablets. Mannerist masonry Torah ark. 

Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)
Significance Rating
4 (International)
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Ornamentation
Custom
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Sources

Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), p. 137 with ill..

Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), p. 64.

Gruber, Samuel D. and Phyllis Myers. Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Poland (Washington, DC: U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and World Monuments Fund, 1994; second revised edition, 1995)., pp. 44-5.

Migalska, Kinga, “Muzea judaistyczne zorganizowane w synagogach w Polsce w latach 1945–1989: historia, teraźniejszość, perspektywy.” Ph.D. thesis, Jagiellonian University, 2023., pp. 161-208.

Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 208-15 with ills. and ills. 70-71, 79, 83, 407, 418.

Wein, Avraham, ed., Pinkas ha-kehilot: Polin, vol. 4: Varsha ve-ha-galil (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1989), ills. facing p. 230, 231 (int).

Wisniewski, Tomasz, Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland: A Guide for Yesterday and Today (Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1998), pp. 25-29 with ill..

Wisniewski, Tomasz, Synagogues and Jewish Communities in the Bialystok Region: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe before 1939 = Bóżnice Białostocczyny: Hearthland of the Jewish Life - Synagogues and Jewish Communities in Białystok Region (Bialystok, 1992), p. 199 with ills; ills on pp. 54-55, 62.

Łodyńska-Kosińska, Maria, Katalog rysunków architektonicznych z akt centralnych władz wyznaniowych w Archiwum Głównym Akt Dawnych w Warszawie (Warsaw, 1981), p. 157, no. 413.

Tomas Wiśniewsski, Bóżnice Białostocczzny, Żydzi w Europie Wschodniej do roku 1939, (David, Białostok, 1992), p.198-201

Dariusz Stankiewicz. "Tykocin-synagoga". bialystok.jewish.org.pl. Retrieved 2009-12-28.

http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/tykocin/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/4385,the-great-synagogue-in-tykocin-2-kozia-street-/

http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2018/11/26/poland-colorful-new-look-for-restored-synagogue-in-tykocin/ 

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