Small Synagogue in Kutaisi
Object Detail
Building Date
1815 (inscription)
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1929 (after a fire)
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (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
Paintings in the interior
Urban significance
Part of shulhoyf
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
REE, vol. 5, p. 248
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
Bostanashvili, Shota. “Sinagogi Gruzii.” In Stranitsy istorii evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.), edited by Mikhail Chlenov, 47–66. Moscow: Sefer, 2014., pp. 57 with ill..
Georgiyah: masa el hakehilot hayehudiyot: kutaisi, kulashi, oni (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2010)., p. 23 with ill..
Navon-Shoval, Sivan, "Bein mizrah le-maarav: tziyurei ha-kir be-vatei ha-kneset be-kutaisi," Peamim 146-147 (2006): 241-276
Plisetskii, Mark. Religiia i byt gruzinskikh evreev (Moscow-Leningrad: Moskovskii rabochii, 1931), p. 75.
Tayar, Israel [Shimon Yantovskii]. Sinagoga - razgromlennaia, no nepokorionnaia (Jerusalem: Biblioteka Aliia, 1987), p. 94.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Unknown
Photograph Date
1997
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 42.274109, 42.709511