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Object Alone
Beit Midrash Hevra Shir in Kraków
Object Detail

Building Date
1898

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Restaurant

Present Usage Details
Kosher restaurant

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter

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. 67 with ill.; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/krakow/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/7431,prayer-house-of-the-szir-synagogue-association-20-kupa-street-/ - wrong placement of the map

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2013

Remarks

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