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Object Alone
Beit Midrash at 31 Trumpoji St. in Old Žagarė
Object Detail

Building Date
185?-1900?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Šiauliai County | Žagarė
| 31 Trumpoji St.(Gedimino g. 13a)

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Garage

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
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Marija Rupeikienė, "Synagogues of Lithuania," in Lithuanian Synagogues (Exhibition Catalogue) (Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 1997), p. 31;

Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 98;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996), p. 278;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 436;

Aleksandr Belozorchik, “Mestechko Zhagory” [Townlet Zhagory], in Pamiatnaia knizhka Kovenskoi gubernii na 1899 god [Kovno province reference book for 1899] (Kovna, 1898), p. 35;

Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), ill. on p. 175 (int);


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
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2017

Remarks

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