Old (Small) Wooden (I) Synagogue in Kulashi
Object Detail
Building Date
1862?
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Timber
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Abandoned
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Wall paintings in the interior
Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)
Bibliography
Amar, Ariella and Ruth Jacoby. Ingathering of the Nations. Treasures of Jewish Art: Documenting an Endangered Legacy (Jerusalem: Center for Jewish Art, 1998), pp. 84-85 with ill..
Arbel, Rachel and Lily Magal (Magalashvili) (eds.), In the Land of Golden Fleece: The Jews of Georgia - History and Culture (Tel Aviv, 1992)., p. 183.
Baazova, Lili, “Synagogues and Synagogue Life in Georgia in the Postwar Era.” In Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union, edited by Yaacov Ro’i, 1995, pp. 290-300, pp. 290-300.
Bostanashvili, Shota. “Sinagogi Gruzii.” In Stranitsy istorii evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.), edited by Mikhail Chlenov, 47–66. Moscow: Sefer, 2014., p. 63.
Chlenov, M, ed. Stranitsy istorii i kul'tury evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.) (Moscow: Sefer, 2014)
Georgiyah: masa el hakehilot hayehudiyot: kutaisi, kulashi, oni (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2010)., pp. 52-55 with ills..
Tayar, Israel [Shimon Yantovskii]. Sinagoga - razgromlennaia, no nepokorionnaia (Jerusalem: Biblioteka Aliia, 1987), ills. after p. 100.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Unknown
Photograph Date
1997
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 42.206367, 42.347698