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Upper (Mtsvanekvavila) Synagogue in Kutaisi
Object Detail

Building Date
1863?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Georgia | Kutaisi (ქუთაისი)
| 57-59 Boris Gaponov St.

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Paintings in the interior


Urban significance

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Israel Tayar, Sinagoga - razgromlennaia, no ne pokorionnaia (Jerusalem, 1987), p. 94; Ariella Amar and Ruth Jacoby, Ingathering of the Nations. Treasures of Jewish Art: Documenting an Endangered Legacy (Jerusalem, 1998), p. 94-95 with ill.; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 248; Shota Bostanashvili, " Sinagogi Gruzii," in Stranitsy istorii i kul'tury evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.), ed. M. Chlenov (Moscow: Sefer, 2014), pp. 57 with ill.; Lili Baazova, "Synagogues and Synagogue Life in Georgia in the Postwar Era," in Yaacov Ro'i (ed.), Jews and Jewish Life in Russian and the Soviet Union (1995), pp. 290-300; Georgiyah: masa el hakehilot hayehudiyot: kutaisi, kulashi, oni (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2010), p. 24-25 with ill. Sivan Navon-Shoval, "Bein mizrah le-maarav: tziyurei ha-kir be-vatei ha-kneset be-kutaisi," Peamim 146-147 (2006), pp. 241-276.
Chlenov, M, ed. Stranitsy istorii i kul'tury evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.) (Moscow: Sefer, 2014)

Georgiyah: masa el hakehilot hayehudiyot: kutaisi, kulashi, oni (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2010).

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Unknown
Photograph Date
1997

Remarks

0 Coordinates: 42.275139, 42.714046