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Great Synagogue in Szczebrzeszyn
Object Detail

Building Date
1659

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1957–1963; 2009-2010

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

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

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 130 with ill.; Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 163-6 with ills.; Andrzej Trzciński, The Traces of Monuments of Jewish Culture in the Lublin Region ([Lublin], [1989]), p. 16, ill. after p. 16; Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 177; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/szczebrzeszyn/11,synagogi-domy-modlitwy-i-inne/24,synagoga-ul-sadowa-2-/

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1999

Remarks

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