Synagogue of Mountain Jews in Baku
Object Detail
Building Date
1916 (building), 1944 (synagogue)
Synagogue active dates
1944-2011
Reconstruction Dates
Demolished in 2011
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
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;
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
Tayar, Israel [Shimon Yantovskii]. Sinagoga - razgromlennaia, no nepokorionnaia (Jerusalem: Biblioteka Aliia, 1987), ills. after p. 68.
Zilbershtein, Moshe, Sinagogi gorskikh evreev Baku (Jerusalem: by the author, 2024)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1994
Remarks
1 Coordinates: 40.376244, 49.837173