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Object Alone
Beit Midrash in Prienai
Object Detail

Building Date
1903

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Šiauliai County | Prienai
| 25 Vytauto St.

Style

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

Significance Rating
1 (Local)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography

CJA & Lita documentation;

Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 146;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996), p. 503-4;

Maria Łodyńska-Kosińska, Katalog rysunków architektonicznych z akt centralnych władz wyznaniowych w Archiwum Głównym Akt Dawnych w Warszawe (Warsaw, 1981) [Courtesy of Tadeusz Zadrozny], p. 113, no. 283;

Hamelits, no. 5, 10[22].2.1881, p. 123;

Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 102


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
2006

Remarks

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