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Beit Tefilah Benyamin Synagogue in Chernivtsi
Object Detail

Building Date
1923

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance
The synagogue was constructed in 1923, the prayer hall was painted before 1940. The donor for the building was the Shapiro family, whose paterfamilias was named Benyamin.

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

Wall paintings


Urban significance

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Khaimovich, Boris, The Work of Our Hands to Glorify: Murals of Beit Tfilah Benymin Synagogue in Czernowitz (Kiev, 2008).

Mykola Kuschnir, Kotlyar, and Anna Yamchuk, eds., “How Goodly Are Thy Tents, O Jacob...” Wall Paintings in Bukovinian Synagogues (Catalogue of the Exhibition) (Chernivtsi and Kyiv: Dukh i litera, 2016), pp. 56-71.

Yulii Lifshitz, “Na grani zabveniya,” Yegupetz 19 (2010).


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Full Name
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1993

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