Great (Old) Synagogue in Bardejov
Object Detail
Building Date
1836
Synagogue active dates
Until WWII
Reconstruction Dates
2015-2017
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Style
Unknown|
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
a listed building (since 1970)
Part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site (since 2000)
Condition
Present Usage
Cultural center
Present Usage Details
a listed building since 1970
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
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Bibliography
Rudolph Klein, "Spirituality and Space", in: Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman, Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that built and used them (Philadelphia, 2000), pp. 318-326, plan on p. 323;
http://suburbiumbardejov.sk/en/galeria/projekt-obnovy-starej-synagogy/
http://bardejov.org/a/jewish-bardejov/jewish-suburbia/old-synagogue/
Borský, Maroš, Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia: A Memorial Landscape of a Lost Community (Bratislava: Jewish Heritage Foundation - Menorah, 2007)
Bárkány, Eugen, L'udovít Dojč. Židovské náboženské obce na Slovensku (Bratislava: Vesna, 1991)
Dorfman, Rivka and Ben-Zion. Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Orit Stieglitz
Photographer
Photograph Date
2017
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 49.294407, 21.268616