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Great Synagogue in Lyon
Object Detail

Building Date
1864

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location

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

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography
Dominique Jarrassé, Une histoire des Synagogues françaises: entre Occident et Orient (Arles, 1997), p. 406; Consistoire Central de France: Annuaire 99 (Paris, 1999), p. 183; Dominique Jarrassé, "Synagogues françaises du Moyen Âge à 1939," Monuments historiques, no. 191 (février 1994): La patrimoine juif français, pp. 45-52, p. 46; Dominique Jarrassé, L'age d'or des synagogues (Paris, 1991), p. 165, ills on pp. 68, 115-116; Avraham Hirsch, “Temple consistorial israélite de Lyon,” Revue générale de l’architecture et des travaux publics, 1865, p. 219. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_synagogue_de_Lyon

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Biography

Photographer
Unknown
Photograph Date
2010

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