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Object Alone
Tempio Maggiore di Roma (Great Synagogue in Rome)
Object Detail

Building Date
1904

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Community

Location
Italy | Lazio | Rome
| Lungotevere de' Cenci

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

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

Urban significance

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

Sacerdoti, Annie, Guide to Jewish Italy (Brooklyn, NY, 1989);

Yaakov Pinkerfeld, Batei-ha-kneset be-italiya mitkufat ha-renesans 'ad yameinu: perek be-toldot ha-adrikhalut ha-yehudit (Jerusalem, 1954), p. 20, ill. 82;

Samuel D. Gruber, “Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present,” in Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism, ed. Steven Fine (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020), 275–86, here 284-285,


Short Name
Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2008

Remarks

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