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Object Alone
Beit Midrash in Sejny
Object Detail

Building Date
1860s

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Poland | Podlaskie Voivodeship | Sejny
| 37 Piłsudskiego St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Cultural 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
Part of shulhoyf

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 119 with ill.; Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990)., p. 53; Fridman, Pirkei Ha-neezar, p. 168 (Shena)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2003

Remarks

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