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Synagogue in Bieżuń
Object Detail

Building Date
Early 20th century

Synagogue active dates
Until WWII

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Cinema

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
1 (Local)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 23 with ill.; Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 77; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 92; Eleonora Bergman, Nurt mauretański w architekturze synagog Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w XIX i na początku XX wieku (Warszawa, 2004), p. 122-123, ills. 74-78; Wein, Avraham, ed., Pinkas ha-kehilot: Polin, vol. 4: Varsha ve-ha-galil (Jerusalem, 1989), p. 146; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/biezun/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/238,synagogue/

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Full Name
Volume
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Photographer
Photograph Date
2009

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