Wooden Beit Midrash in Žemaičių Naumiestis
Object Detail
Building Date
1900-1923?
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Style
Unknown|
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Timber
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
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Interior murals, probably showing of holy sites, in very bad shape.
Urban significance
Part of shulhoyf
Significance Rating
2 (Regional)
Condition of Building Fabric
D (Very bad)
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), p. 399, 400;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 457
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)
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
2007
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 55.361080, 21.699785