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Merchants' Synagogue in Mahiloŭ (Mogilev)
Object Detail

Building Date
1880

Synagogue active dates
Closed in 1931

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Office building

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
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Mikhail Kheifets, "Evreiskoe nasledie Belorussii," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), p. 47; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 432; Litin, Aleksander, Istoriia mogilevskogo evreistva: dokumenty i liudi (Minsk, 2006) - volume 2, part 1, p. 134, 137-8; Litin, Aleksander, Istoriia mogilevskogo evreistva: dokumenty i liudi (Minsk, 2002) - volume 1, p. 102 with ill.; http://globus.tut.by/mogilev/index2.htm#libknehta21_sinag

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Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1999

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