Great Synagogue in Akhaltsikhe
Object Detail
Building Date
1868, 1910
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
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)
Beizer, Michael. Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim - Mosty Kultury, 2002)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Unknown
Photograph Date
1997
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 41.644962, 42.980350