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New Synagogue in Livorno
Object Detail

Building Date
1708 (Torah Ark), 1958-1962 (synagogue)

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Community

Location
Italy | Tuscany | Livorno
| Piazza Benamozegh 1

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Concrete

Summary and Remarks

The Torah Ark, dated to 1708, was made by Angelo Scoccianti from Cupramontana in Marches, and was brought to Livorno in 1970 from the Spanish synagogue in Pesaro. 


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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
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Gruber, Samuel D., “Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present,” in Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism, ed. Steven Fine (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020), 275–86

Sacerdoti, Annie. The Guide to Jewish Italy, photographs by Alberto Jona Falco (Venice, 2008)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2004

Remarks

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