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Beit Shmuel Synagogue in Białystok
Object Detail

Building Date
1901-1902

Synagogue active dates
Until WWII

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Sport facility

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

The synagogue's name commemorates Samuel Mohilewer (1824–1898), the most famous rabbi of Białystok and an advocate of Zionism. 


Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Avrom Shmuel Hershberg, Pinkos Bialystok: grunt-materialn tsu der geshikhte fun di yidn in bialystok biz nokh der ershter velt-milkhome, 2 vols (New York, 1949-1950), vol. 1, p. 309-311;

http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/bialystok/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/382,bejt-samuel-synagogue-3-branickiego-street-/ 


Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), p. 19 with ill..

Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), p. 58.

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Full Name
Volume
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Photographer
Photograph Date
1992

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