Great Synagogue of Jews from Akhaltsikhe (Georgian Synagogue) in Tbilisi
Object Detail
Building Date
1904-1913
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
2011-2012
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Synagogue
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Paintings in the prayer hall
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
L. Saminskii, "V tuzemnykh sinagogakh Tiflisa," Novyi Voskhod, 1914, #5 (9.2), p. 31 - from Volodia Levin;
Jews of Georgia, p. 146, 163, 180, ill. 140;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue_(Tbilisi);
Shota Bostanashvili, " Sinagogi Gruzii," in Stranitsy istorii i kul'tury evreev Gruzii (po sledam ekspeditsii 2013 g.), ed. M. Chlenov (Moscow: Sefer, 2014), pp. 49, 53-56 with ill.;
Lili Baazova, "Synagogues and Synagogue Life in Georgia in the Postwar Era," in Yaacov Ro'i (ed.), Jews and Jewish Life in Russian and the Soviet Union (1995), pp. 290-300.
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Full Name
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Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2018
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 41.689968, 44.807274