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Great Synagogue in Utena
Object Detail

Building Date
1862

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1879, 1890–95, 1937, after 1945, 2017

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Lithuania | Utena County | Utena
| 6 Rinkos Sq.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Office building

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

Joint project of the catalogue of Lithuanian synagogue, CJA, Vilnius Academy of Art, Center for Jewish Studies in Vilnius;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996), pp. 119-120;

Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), ills on p. 4 = Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images, №48228, №53137;

Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images, №31279 (ph. 1969);

Yizkor-bukh: utyan un umgegent, eds. Kalman Meir Goldfayn and Frume Melamed (Tel Aviv, 1979), ills. on p. 59, 207;

Ephraim Oshry, The annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Judaica Press, 1995), ill. on p. 266;

Hamelits, no. 140, 25.6 (7.7). 1890, p. 2; Hamelits, no. 104, 10(22).5.1892, pp. 2-3; Hamelits, no. 169, 29.7(10.8).1892, p. 6; Hamelits, 7.7.1890, no. 140, p. 2; Hamelits, no. 9, 12(24).01.1898, p. 7;

ills. in ww.zydai.lt/lt/content/viewitem/735/


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 Date
2006

Remarks

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