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Object Alone
Algazi Synagogue in Izmir
Object Detail

Building Date
1724

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1889, 1901, 2007

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Turkey | Izmir
| Kemeraltı, Havra St. (927 Sokak No:73)

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

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
Part of shulhoyf

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
http://www.izmirjewishheritage.com/synagogues-of-izmir http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2014/05/22/izmir-project-progress-beit-hillel-synagogue-restored/%E2%80%9D Esther Juhasz (ed.), Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire: Aspects of Material Culture (Jerusalem, 1990), p. 37, ill. 17; plate 5 after p. 32, ill. 16 on p. 78;
Güleryüz , Naim A. and Izzet Keribar. The Synagogues of Thrace and Anatolia (Istanbul: Gözlem Gazetecilik Basin ve Yayin Aş, 2008)

Zack, Joel A., The Historic Synagogues of Turkey / Türkie'nin tarihi sinagoglari, Photographs by Devon Jarvis (American Sephardi Federation, 2008)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1993

Remarks

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