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Bnei Emuna Beit Midrash in Kraków
Object Detail

Building Date
1886

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1993

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Cultural center

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 66 with ill.; Izabella Rejduch-Samkowa & Jan Samek (eds.), Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce, tom IV: Miasto Kraków, część VI: Kazimierz i Stradom - Judaica: Bóżnice, budowle publiczne i cmentarze (Warszawa, 1995), p. 32-33, ill. 79; Eugeniusz Duda, Krakowskie judiaca (Warszawa, 1991), p. 115; Hamagid, 13.6.1889, p. 179 - from Dror; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/krakow/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/3748,b-nei-emunah-house-of-prayer-17-meiselsa-street-/

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1995

Remarks

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