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Taharat Ha-Kodesh Choral Synagogue in Vilnius
Object Detail

Building Date
1902-1903

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Lithuania | Vilnius County | Vilnius
| 39 Pylimo St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

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
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography

Marija Rupeikienė, "Synagogues of Lithuania," in Lithuanian Synagogues (Exhibition Catalogue) (Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 1997), p. 32, ills on pp. 6-7, 25;

Leyzer Ran, Yerushalaim delita (New York, 1974), vol. 1, p. 104, ills. on p. 113, vol. 2, ills on p. 526;

Evreiskii mir v pochtovykh otkrytkakh (Moscow, 2002), ill. on p. 74;

Mordechai Zalkin, "'Kivu le-shalom ve-ain' - perek be-toldot beit ha-kneset ha-maskili 'taharat ha-kodesh' be-vilna" in David Assaf and Ada Rapoport-Albert (eds.), Yashan mipnei hadash: mehkarim be-toldot yehudei mizrah eiropa u-be-tarbutam: shai le-imanuel etkes (Jerusalem, 2009), pp. 385-403;

Nijolė Lukšionytė-Tolvaišienė, “Buildings in Vilnius,” in: Alfredas Jomantas, Jewish Cultural Heritage in Lithuania (Vilnius, 2006), p. 72;

Vilna: A Jewish Community in Times of Glory and in Time of Destruction, YIVO Exhibition Catalogue (New York, 1960), p. 19, no. 155;

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/06/05/vilnius-choral-synagogue-under-repair;


Beizer, Michael. Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim - Mosty Kultury, 2002), ill. on p. 20.

Bergman, Eleonora. Nurt mauretański w architekturze synagog Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w XIX i na początku XX wieku (Warsaw: Neriton, 2004)., ills. 227.

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), vol. 2, pp. 253-261.

Klausner, Israel. Korot beit-ha-almin ha-yashan be-vilnah (Vilna: Ha-hevrah le-historiyah ve-etnografiyah al shem sh. an-sky be-vilnah and ha-kehilah ha-ivrit be-vilnah, 1935), pp. 93-94.

Likhodedov, Vladimir, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. on p. 216 (int), 217, 219.

Rupeikienė, Marija, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 126 ill 107, p. 127 ill. 108.

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2007

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