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Synagogue in Mád
Object Detail

Building Date
1795

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
2000-2014; 2015 (by EMIH)

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

One of the oldest surviving synagogues in Hungary.


Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Tiered Torah ark. Interior wall paintings. 


Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

https://www.wmf.org/project/m%C3%A1d-synagogue

http://synagogues.hu/zsinagoga/mad

http://www.greatsynagogue.hu/blog/?page_id=610

Gerõ, László, Magyarországi zsinagógák (Budapest, 1989), pp. 104-106;

Gazda, Anikó, Zsinagógák és Zsidó községek Magyarországon (Budapest, 1991);

Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman, Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia, 2000), p. 329;

Rudolf Klein, Zsinagógák Magyarországon, 1782–1918: Fejlődéstörténet, tipológia és jelentőség / Synagogues in Hungary, 1782–1918: Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance (Budapest: TERC, 2011), ills. 4.31, 4.49, 4.66-79;

Wirth, Péter, and Benkő, Ágnes, Ami megmaradt… Hegyaljai zsidó házak (Budapest: TERC, 2015), pp. 41-53;


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Photographer
Photograph Date
2018

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