Synagogue in Bobowa
Object Detail
Building Date
1756, 1889
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
2003
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Stone
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Shortly after WWII, the building was rebuilt, but during the communist period housed a school's workshops. In 1993, the building became the property of the Kraków Jewish Community. It was renovated thanks to funds from Rabbi Asche Scharf of New York, and a grand reopening was held in July 2003. It currently serves as a place of prayer for visiting Jews and is also open to the public.
Condition
Present Usage
Synagogue
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
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 23 with ill.;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 359-61 with ills. and ill. 416;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Heaven’s Gates: Masonry Synagogues in the Territories of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, trans. Krzystof Z. Cieszkowski (Warsaw: Polish Institute of World Art Series : Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2017), 447.
Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 207;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/bobowa/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/270,synagoga/
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1995
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 49.707649, 20.943209