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Great (Old) Synagogue in Bardejov
Object Detail

Building Date
1836

Synagogue active dates
Until WWII

Reconstruction Dates
2015-2017

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Slovakia | Bardejov
| 13 Mlynská St.

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/

http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/04/24/slovakia-restoration-of-bardejov-synagogue-is-complete/%E2%80%9D


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)

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2017

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