Butchers' Synagogue in Kaunas
Object Detail
Building Date
1890-1900?
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1920s-1930s; after 1945
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Educational Institution
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
CJA & Lita documentation;
Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 139 ill. 119;
Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996) p. 538;
Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images, №3763332 and №3763333 - modern;
Frenk Epshtein, "Zikhroynes vegen kovne," in Lite, eds. Mendl Sudarski, Uriyah Katsenelnbogn and I. Kisin (New York, 1951), p. 1197
Cohen-Mushlin, Aliza, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin, Giedrė Mickūnaitė, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė (eds.), Synagogues in Lithuania. A Catalogue, 2 vols. (Vilnius: VIlnius Academy of Art Press, 2010-12)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
“Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue” Archives
Photographer
Photograph Date
2006
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 54.897579, 23.890778