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Great Synagogue in Akhaltsikhe
Object Detail

Building Date
1868, 1910

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style

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
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia, vol. 4, p. 60-62 with ill.; Ariella Amar and Ruth Jacoby, Ingathering of the Nations. Treasures of Jewish Art: Documenting an Endangered Legacy (Jerusalem, 1998), p. 92-93 with ills and plan; Rachel Arbel & Lily Magal (Magalashvili) (eds.), In the Land of Golden Fleece: The Jews of Georgia - History and Culture (Tel Aviv, 1992), p. 180, ills. 137, 142; Shota Bostanashvili, "Sinagogi Gruzii", in Stranitsy istorii i kul'tury evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.), ed. M. Chlenov (Moscow: Sefer, 2014), p. 58; Lili Baazova, "Synagogues and Synagogue Life in Georgia in the Postwar Era", in Yaacov Ro'i (ed.), Jews and Jewish Life in Russian and the Soviet Union (1995).
Beizer, Michael. Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim - Mosty Kultury, 2002)

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Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Unknown
Photograph Date
1997

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0 Coordinates: 41.644962, 42.980350