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Object Alone
Synagogue of Mountain Jews in Baku
Object Detail

Building Date
1916

Synagogue active dates
from 1945

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Azerbaijan | Baku
| Samsi Badalbeyli (former Dimitrova) St.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

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
No information

Bibliography

CJA documentation;

Israel Tayar, Sinagoga - razgromlennaia, no ne pokorionnaia (Jerusalem, 1987), ills. after p. 68;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 72, ills. on p. 71, 73;

Mordechai Altshuler, Yehudei mizrah kavkaz: toldot ha-yehudim he-harariyim me-reshit ha-meah ha-tesha-'esreh (Jerusalem, 1990), p. 353


Short Name
Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1994

Remarks

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