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Object Alone
Old Congregation Synagogue (Kahal Kadosh Yashan) in Ioannina
Object Detail

Building Date
Last quarter of the 18th century, 1829

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style
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Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

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

Urban significance

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Dorfman, Rivka and Ben-Zion. Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000), p. 329, pp. 109-116 with ills.

Elias Messinas, "Habima bevatei-hakneset hame'uharim shel yavan vemekoroteiha," in: Va'asu li mikdash: batei-kneset meyamei kedem ve'ad yameinu, eds. Yakov Eshel, Ehud Netzer, David Amit and David Cassuto (Ariel, 2004), pp. 129-135., pp. 129-135 with plan.

Messinas, Elias. The Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace (Jacksonville: Bloch Publishing Company in association with Bowman & Cody Academic Publishing, 2012)., https://issuu.com/eliasblue/docs/messinas_synagogues_of_greece_do_no (accessed November 30, 2021)

Stavroulakis , Nicholas P. and Timothy J. DeVinney. Jewish Sites and Synagogues of Greece (Athens, 1992)

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Full Name
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2001

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