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Shalom (Aydınlı) Synagogue in Izmir
Object Detail

Building Date
1800

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1890

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Turkey | Izmir
| Kemeraltı, Havra St.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance
The synagogue was allocated for Jews who emigrated from Aydın in the 1930s.

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

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
http://xn--kemeralt-0kb.com/salom-aydinlilar-sinagogu/ Esther Juhasz (ed.), Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire: Aspects of Material Culture (Jerusalem, 1990), p. 37, ill. 15, plate 8 before p. 33, ill. 43 on p. 102; Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, "The Sephardi Synagogue: The Fusion of Sefardic Jewish Tradition with Ottoman Architectural Forms," in Attilio Petruccioli (ed.), Sefarad: Architettura e urbanistica ebraiche dopo il 1492 (Ferrara, 1992), pp. 129-144; Giacomo Saban, "Sinagoghe sefardite nell'Imperio Ottomano," in Attilio Petruccioli (ed.), Sefarad: Architettura e urbanistica ebraiche dopo il 1492 (Ferrara, 1992), pp. 145-156 (p. 154);
Güleryüz , Naim A. and Izzet Keribar. The Synagogues of Thrace and Anatolia (Istanbul: Gözlem Gazetecilik Basin ve Yayin Aş, 2008)

Zack, Joel A., The Historic Synagogues of Turkey / Türkie'nin tarihi sinagoglari, Photographs by Devon Jarvis (American Sephardi Federation, 2008)

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Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1993

Remarks

0 Coordinates: 38.420444, 27.136036