Fabric Synagogue in Timişoara
Object Detail
Building Date
1899
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
The synagogue is on the list compiled in 2022 by the World Monuments Fund of 25 heritage sites around the world deemed at particularly high risk.
Condition
Present Usage
Abandoned
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
D (Very bad)
Bibliography
"Romania: a new Jewish Timisoara virtual museum is launched, " Jewish Heritage Europe, June 25, 2021, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2021/06/25/romania-a-new-jewish-timisoara-virtual-museum-is-launched/ (accessed March 6, 2022)
"Romania: Timisoara’s long-derelict Fabric Synagogue (designed by Lipot Baumhorn) is on the 2022 World Monuments Fund Watch list of world heritage at risk," Jewish Heritage Europe, March 1, 2022, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2022/03/01/romania-timisoara/ (accessed March 6, 2022)
Streja, Aristide and Lucian Schwarz, Synagogues of Romania ([Bucharest]: Hasefer Publishing House, 1997), pp. 113, 117, 190, ills 98-99.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1997
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 45.756348, 21.245321