Great Synagogue in Włodawa
Object Detail
Building Date
1764-1774
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
19th c., 1934, 1970
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
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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.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Piotr Jamski
Photographer
Photograph Date
8.2015
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 51.544685, 23.553320