Great Synagogue in Zamość
Object Detail
Building Date
1610-1620
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1960s; 2005
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
The synagogue's restoration is a key point of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland.
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
The synagogue was built as a part of Renaissance ideal city, which ihas been placed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. The synagogue's interior design inaugurated the type of hall synagogues spanned with clositer vaults with corner squinches.
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Masonry Torah ark. Stucco decoration.
Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter
Significance Rating
4 (International)
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Bibliography
Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 7: Mahozot Lublin, Kielce (Jerusalem, 1999), p. 205;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/zamosc/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/4,the-great-synagogue-9-zamenhofa-street-/
Andrzej Trzciński, The Traces of Monuments of Jewish Culture in the Lublin Region ([Lublin], [1989]), p, 15.
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), p. 150 with ill..
Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), p. 178.
Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 157-62 with ills. and ills. 51, 68, 81, 94.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Stolarska, Małgorzata
Photographer
Photograph Date
1999
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 50.718018, 23.254223