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Great Synagogue in Bykhov
Object Detail

Building Date
16??

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Abandoned

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Synagogue interior with so-called bimah-support.


Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Stucco decoration in the cupola above bimah.


Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
D (Very bad)

Bibliography

CJA documentation;

Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 270-3 with ills. and ills. 296, 300;

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. 30-31 with ill.;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 193-4 with ill.;

A. I. Lokotko, Arkhitektura evropeiskikh sinagog (Minsk, 2002), pp. 72-73 with ill., p. 104 with ill.;

Litin, Aleksander, Istoriia mogilevskogo evreistva: dokumenty i liudi (Minsk, 2006) - volume 2, part 1, p. 136;

http://globus.tut.by/byhov/index.htm#sinagoga; 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. 52;

David E. Fishman, “‘To Our Brethren Abroad’: Letters and Reports by Soviet Rabbis, 1925–1930,” Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe 1–2(54–55)(2005), p. 156;

Niunkaitė-Račiūnnienė, Aistė, Lietuvos žydų tradicinio meno ir simbolių pasaulis: Atvaizdai, vaizdiniai ir tekstai (Vilnius, 2011), ill. 30-35

Biuleten' manitorynhu histarychnai prastory, 1/2016: Sinahohi Belarusi, pp. 97-103 - photos of the 1930s.


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Photographer
Photograph Date
2007

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