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Mole Antonelliana in Turin
Object Detail

Building Date
1863-1889

Synagogue active dates
Never used as a synagogue

Reconstruction Dates
1961

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Italy | Piedmont | Turin
| Via Montebello 20

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Never functioned as a synagogue.


Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Museum

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

The building is the tallest museum building in the world.


Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

The present building's mname -- Mole Antonelliana -- is a tribute to Alessandro (Antonelli, its architect.


Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Noemi Cassuto, "The Italian Synagogue Through the Ages" in: Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman, Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that built and used them (Philadelphia, 2000), pp. 300-307, ill. on p. 307
Sacerdoti, Annie. The Guide to Jewish Italy, photographs by Alberto Jona Falco (Venice, 2008)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2019

Remarks
http://www.wikiwand.com/es/Mole_Antonelliana

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