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Object Alone
Pinkas Synagogue in Prague
Object Detail

Building Date
1535, 1625, 1860

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1920s, 1950-54, 1992-95

Community

Location
Czech Republic | Bohemia | Prague
| Široká St.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Museum

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
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Paulus, Simon. Die Architektur der Synagoge im Mittelalter: Überlieferung und Bestand. Petersberg: Imhof, 2007, pp. 446-448.
Fiedler, Jiří. Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia (Prague:Sefer, 1991)

Pařík, Arno, Dana Cabanová, and Petr Kliment. Prague Synagogues (Prague, Jewish Museum, n.d)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2007

Remarks

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