White (Great) Synagogue in Varakļāni
Object Detail
Building Date
1817
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1925; after 1945
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Stone
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Factory
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
2 (Regional)
Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)
Bibliography
CJA documentation;
Pinkas hakehilot: Latviyah ve-estoniyah (Jerusalem, 1988), p. 114;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 205;
www.jewishgen.org/latvia/varaklani.html with ill;
www.tangodiva.com/index.php?page=features&j=1&cat=2&story_id=343 with ill.
Bogdanova, Rita. Latvija: Sinagogas un rabīni, 1918-1940 / Latvia: Synagogues and Rabbis, 1918-1940 (Riga, 2004), p. 208 with ill..
Rochko, Josif, Jewish Latgale: Guidebook (Daugavpils, by the author, 2018), p. 56.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2007
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 56.609554, 26.755886