Great Synagogue in Tykocin
Object Detail
Building Date
1642
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
18th century, 1970s
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
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
One of the synagogues with so-called bimah-support. The inscription on this construction -- “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe” (Prov. 18:10) -- presumably explains its meaning.
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Interior wall paintings and paryer tablets. Mannerist masonry Torah ark.
Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)
Significance Rating
4 (International)
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Bibliography
Tomas Wiśniewsski, Bóżnice Białostocczzny, Żydzi w Europie Wschodniej do roku 1939, (David, Białostok, 1992), p.198-201
Dariusz Stankiewicz. "Tykocin-synagoga". bialystok.jewish.org.pl. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), p. 137 with ill..
Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), p. 64.
Gruber, Samuel D. and Phyllis Myers. Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Poland (Washington, DC: U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and World Monuments Fund, 1994; second revised edition, 1995)., pp. 44-5.
Migalska, Kinga, “Muzea judaistyczne zorganizowane w synagogach w Polsce w latach 1945–1989: historia, teraźniejszość, perspektywy.” Ph.D. thesis, Jagiellonian University, 2023., pp. 161-208.
Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 208-15 with ills. and ills. 70-71, 79, 83, 407, 418.
Wein, Avraham, ed., Pinkas ha-kehilot: Polin, vol. 4: Varsha ve-ha-galil (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1989), ills. facing p. 230, 231 (int).
Wisniewski, Tomasz, Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland: A Guide for Yesterday and Today (Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1998), pp. 25-29 with ill..
Wisniewski, Tomasz, Synagogues and Jewish Communities in the Bialystok Region: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe before 1939 = Bóżnice Białostocczyny: Hearthland of the Jewish Life - Synagogues and Jewish Communities in Białystok Region (Bialystok, 1992), p. 199 with ills; ills on pp. 54-55, 62.
Łodyńska-Kosińska, Maria, Katalog rysunków architektonicznych z akt centralnych władz wyznaniowych w Archiwum Głównym Akt Dawnych w Warszawie (Warsaw, 1981), p. 157, no. 413.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
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Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1992
Remarks
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