Great Synagogue in Krynki
Object Detail
Building Date
1756
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Disassembled in 1971
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
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
1 (Local)
Condition of Building Fabric
E (No return)
Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996) p. 72 with ill.;
Tomasz Wisniewski, Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland: A Guide for Yesterday and Today (Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1998), p. 85, ills. on p. 86;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 400-1 with ills.;
Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 61;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 221;
Tomasz Wisniewski, Synagogues and Jewish Communities in the Bialystok Region: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe before 1939 = Bóżnice Białostocczyny: Hearthland of the Jewish Life - Synagogues and Jewish Communities in Białystok Region (Bialystok, 1992), p. 166, ill. on p. 61, 166;
Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 8: mehozot vilna, byalistok, novogrudek (Jerusalem, 2005), p. 569;
Tadeusz Rolke, Simon Schama, Tu byliśmy: Ostatnie ślady zaginionej kultury (Berlin-Warszawa, 2008), p. 47
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Photograph Copyright
Virtual Shtetl
Photographer
Photograph Date
2009
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