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Object Alone
Great Beit Midrash in Krekenava
Object Detail

Building Date
1880-1883

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Panevėžys County | Krekenava
| 6 Vytauto gatve

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Dwelling

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
1 (Local)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

CJA & Lita documentation;

Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 106 ill. 87;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996), p. 622, 623;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, vol. 5, p. 222;

Bleter fun yidish lite, ed. Yankev Rabinovich (Tel Aviv, 1974), p. 89;

Hamelits, no. 20, 26.5[7.6].1881, p. 423; no. 42, 2[14].11.1882, p. 847;

Anatolii Khaesh, "Korobochnoe deloproizvodstvo kak istochnik svedenii o zhizni evreiskikh obshchestv i ikh personal'nom sostave," Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta 12(30) (2008), p. 222


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
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2017

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