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Synagogue in Kolno
Object Detail

Building Date
1847

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Poland | Podlaskie Voivodeship | Kolno
| 1 Strażacka St.

Style
Unknown|

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

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
D (Very bad)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 58 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. 221; Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 67; Eleonora Bergman, Nurt mauretański w architekturze synagog Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w XIX i na początku XX wieku (Warszawa, 2004), p. 110-11, ill. 61; Hamelits, no. 21, 26.01(7.2).1898, p. 8; Wein, Avraham, ed., Pinkas ha-kehilot: Polin, vol. 4: Varsha ve-ha-galil (Jerusalem, 1989), p. 411; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/kolno/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/4268,the-synagogue-in-kolno/

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2010

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