Great Synagogue in Łęczna
Object Detail
Building Date
1648-1655
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
After 1846; after 1881; 1953-1964
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
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Stucco decoration of Torah ark
Urban significance
Part of Jewish street
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. 82 with ill.;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 264-7 with ills. and ills. 295, 297-8;
Andrzej Trzciński, The Traces of Monuments of Jewish Culture in the Lublin Region ([Lublin], [1989]), p. 20;
Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 165;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 280-1;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/leczna/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/3898,the-great-synagogue-in-leczna-19-boznicza-st-/
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1995
Remarks
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