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Synagogue at Dikuna St. in Shklov
Object Detail

Building Date
17th century?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
after WWII

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Belarus | Mahiloŭskaia vobl. | Škloŭ / Shklov (Шклов / Шклоў)
| Corner of Dneprovskaia St. and Dikuna St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Educational Institution

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

One of the oldest synagogues in Belarus


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
C (Poor)

Bibliography
CJA documentation; Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), p. 30; 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. 46; Litin, Aleksander, Istoriia mogilevskogo evreistva: dokumenty i liudi (Minsk, 2006) - volume 2, part 1, p. 136; http://globus.tut.by/shklov/index.htm#sinag; A.S. Dembovetskii (ed.), Opyt opisaniia Mogilevskoi gubernii v istoricheskom, fiziko-geograficheskom, etnograficheskom, promyshlennom, sel'sko-khoziaistvennom, lesnom, uchebnom, meditsinskom i statisticheskom otnoshenii, vol. 2 (Mogilev, 1884), p. 49. Zbor pomnikau historyi i kul'tury Belarusi: Mahiliouskaia voblasts' (Minsk, 1986), p. 382.

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Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1989

Remarks

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