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Great Synagogue in Siemiatycze
Object Detail

Building Date
1797

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1824; 1960s

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Museum

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 120 with ill.;

Tomasz Wisniewski, Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland: A Guide for Yesterday and Today (Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1998), p. 99-100 with ill.;

Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 63;

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), p. 186-7 with ill.; ill. on p. 68, 70;

Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 381 on p. 196;

Evreiskaia Starina, 1911, p. 563 - 567;

http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/siemiatycze/11,synagogi-domy-modlitwy-i-inne/9397,synagoga-w-siemiatyczach/

https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/digitallibrary/pages/viewer.aspx?presentorid=NNL_Ephemera&DocID=NNL_Ephemera700348407


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