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Object Alone
Synagogue in Veroia
Object Detail

Building Date
19th century

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1995, 2002

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Greece | Central Macedonia Region | Veroia (Βέροια)
| Konastantinos Raktivan Sq in the Jewish quarter

Style
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

Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Judith Lange, "Sepharad - itinerario nel passato sefardita della Macedonia e della Tracia greche," in Attilio Petruccioli (ed.), Sefarad: Architettura e urbanistica ebraiche dopo il 1492 (Ferrara, 1992), pp. 115-127, ill. on p. 121,125

Elias Messinas, "The Jewish Quarter and Synagogue of Veroia, Greece," in: I. Sarageldin, E. Shluger, J. Martin-Brown (eds.), Historic Cities and Sacred Sited: Cultural Roots for Urban Futures (Washington, The World Bank, 2001), pp. 310-312.

http://sefarad.org/lm/034/6.html


Dorfman, Rivka and Ben-Zion. Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000), pp. 101-108 with ills., p. 330.

Messinas, Elias. The Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace (Jacksonville: Bloch Publishing Company in association with Bowman & Cody Academic Publishing, 2012)., pp. 84-88., https://issuu.com/eliasblue/docs/messinas_synagogues_of_greece_do_no (accessed November 30, 2021)

Stavroulakis , Nicholas P. and Timothy J. DeVinney. Jewish Sites and Synagogues of Greece (Athens, 1992)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2022

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