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Synagogue in Kępno
Object Detail

Building Date
1815

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1893; 1924

Community

Location
Poland | Wielkopolskie Voivodeship | Kępno
| 4 Łazienkowa St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

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

Urban significance
Part of shulhoyf

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 55 with ill.; Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, "Polish Synagogues in the 19th Century" in Antony Polonski (ed.), From Shtetl to Socialism: Studies from Polin (London-Washington, 1993), pp. 212-231 (first published in Polin, vol. 2), p. 219; Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 397-9 with ills.; Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 101; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/kepno/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/10934,synagoga-2009-rok/; http://www.muzeumkepno.pl/synagoga.html; Lazzeri Katarzyna, Synagoga w Kępnie, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław 2005, niepublikowana praca licencjacka dostępna w bibliotece muzeum)

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2017

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