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Great Synagogue in Nowy Sącz
Object Detail

Building Date
1773-1774, 1894

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1974

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Poland | Małopolskie Voivodeship | Nowy Sącz
| 12 Berka Joselewicza St.

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

Urban significance

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 93 with ill;

http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/nowy-sacz/11,synagogi-domy-modlitwy-i-inne/319,synagoga-grodzka-ul-berka-joselewicza-12-/

Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Heaven’s Gates: Masonry Synagogues in the Territories of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Translated by Krzystof Z. Cieszkowski. Warsaw: Polish Institute of World Art Series : Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2017. P. 451.

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1995

Remarks

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