Upper (Mtsvanekvavila) Synagogue in Kutaisi
Object Detail
Building Date
1863?
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
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).
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
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Unknown
Photograph Date
1997
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 42.275139, 42.714046