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Object Alone
Synagogue in Salantai
Object Detail

Building Date
1800-1850?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1926; 1958

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Klaipėda County | Salantai
| 3 Antano Salio St.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
House of Culture

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
A (Good)

Bibliography
CJA & Lita documentation; Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996) p. 434; Hamelits, no. 219, 9(21).10.1887, p. 2333; Anatolii Khaesh, "Korobochnoe deloproizvodstvo kak istochnik svedenii o zhizni evreiskikh obshchestv i ikh personal'nom sostave," Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta 12(30) (2008), p. 226;
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

Photographer
Photograph Date
2007

Remarks

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