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Great Synagogue in Włodawa
Object Detail

Building Date
1764-1774

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
19th c., 1934, 1970

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Poland | Lublin Voivodeship | Włodawa (Wlodawa)
| 7 Czerwonego Krzyża St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Museum

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

The earliet known masonry synagogue with front corner pavilions, which probably allude to the description of the Herodian Temple in the Mishna and its its interpretation by r. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller. 


Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Torah ark; interior painted stucco decoration.


Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 7: Mahozot Lublin, Kielce (Jerusalem, 1999), p. 177, ill. after p. 176;

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/05/27/poland-synagogue-complex-in-wlodowa-to-undergo-restoration

http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2018/08/14/update-synagogue-complex-renovation-in-wlodawa-poland/ 


Amar, Ariella and Ruth Jacoby. Ingathering of the Nations. Treasures of Jewish Art: Documenting an Endangered Legacy (Jerusalem: Center for Jewish Art, 1998), p. 58-59 with ills..

Andrzej Trzciński, The Traces of Monuments of Jewish Culture in the Lublin Region ([Lublin], [1989]), p. 21, ill. after p. 16.

Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), p. 145 with ill..

Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), p. 159.

Kravtsov, Sergey, “The Modern-Time Theoretical Reconstructions of the Mishnaic Temple as a Source for Synagogue Architecture,” in Jewish Architecture: New Sources and Approaches, ed. Katrin Keßler and Alexander von Kienlin (Petersberg, 2015), p. 111.

Migalska, Kinga, “Muzea judaistyczne zorganizowane w synagogach w Polsce w latach 1945–1989: historia, teraźniejszość, perspektywy.” Ph.D. thesis, Jagiellonian University, 2023., pp. 209-250.

Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 369-72 with ills. and ill. 415, 419.

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Photographer
Photograph Date
8.2015

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