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New Neolog Synagogue in Žilina
Object Detail

Building Date
1928-1931

Synagogue active dates
Until WWII

Reconstruction Dates
2012-2017

Architect/ Maker

Location
Slovakia | Žilina
| 1 Kuzmányho St.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Concrete

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Art center

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
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography
http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/05/04/renovated-modernist-synagogue-in-zilina-slovakia-to-open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Synagogue,_Žilina; http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2014/05/08/update-on-nova-synagoga-restoration-project-in-zilina-slovakia; http://www.novasynagoga.sk/english-2/
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)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2011

Remarks

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