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Synagogue in Sejny
Object Detail

Building Date
1885

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1978-1987

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Poland | Podlaskie Voivodeship | Sejny
| 41 Piłsudskieo St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Museum

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
3 (National)

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; Hatsfira, 1883, #19, 18.5, p. 151; Dovid Katz, Lithuanian Jewish Culture (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2004), ill. on p. 173; Wein, Avraham, ed., Pinkas ha-kehilot: Polin, vol. 4: Varsha ve-ha-galil (Jerusalem, 1989), p. 331; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/sejny/11,synagogi-domy-modlitwy-i-inne/4370,synagoga-w-sejnach-ul-pilsudskiego-41-/

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2003

Remarks

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