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Synagogue in Mielnik
Object Detail

Building Date
1st half of the 19th century

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1886

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Poland | Podlaskie Voivodeship | Mielnik
| 1a Tadeusza Kościuszki Sq.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Art center

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
A (Good)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 86 with ill.; Tomasz Wisniewski, Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland: A Guide for Yesterday and Today (Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1998), p. 90 with ill.; Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 62; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 403; Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 8: mehozot vilna, byalistok, novogrudek (Jerusalem, 2005), p. 413-4; 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), pp. 173-4 with ill.; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/mielnik/11,synagogi-domy-modlitwy-i-inne/12011,synagoga-w-mielniku-pl-tadeusza-kosciuszki-1a-/

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Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2009

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