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Object Alone
Great Synagogue in Slonim
Object Detail

Building Date
1635 - 1642

Synagogue active dates
until WWII

Reconstruction Dates
1881, 1887, 1938

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Abandoned

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

A synagogue with so-called bimah-support.


Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Interior wall painings. Stucco decorated Torah ark.


Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
D (Very bad)

Bibliography

Michael Beizer, Our Legacy: The CIS synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem, 2002), p. 172;

Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 198-203 with ills. and ill. 56, 79, 84, 417;

Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), pp. 15-43, p. 31;

Mikhail Kheifets, "Evreiskoe nasledie Belorussii," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), pp. 44-52, p. 45 with ills.;

Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ills. 84-89 on pp. 49-52;

Dovid Katz, Lithuanian Jewish Culture (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2004), ill. on p. 172 (ext), 179 (womens section);

http://globus.tut.by/slonim/index3.htm#sinagoga;

Biuleten' manitorynhu histarychnai prastory, 1/2016: Sinahohi Belarusi, pp. 120-128 with photos of the 1940s.


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Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1993

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