Synagogue in Sabile
Object Detail
Building Date
1875-1890
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
After 1990
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Cultural center
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Was purchased as a cannery, restored, and converted into a museum by Latvian sculptor Ojārs Arvīds Feldbergs.
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Painted wooden vault.
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Bibliography
CJA documentation;
Pinkas hakehilot: Latviyah ve-estoniyah (Jerusalem, 1988), p. 191;
Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images
https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2021/06/22/latvia-former-sabile-synagogue-reopens-after-revamp/
https://jews.lv/en/13752-2-copy-2-copy-copy-2/news-and-events/
Bogdanova, Rita. Latvija: Sinagogas un rabīni, 1918-1940 / Latvia: Synagogues and Rabbis, 1918-1940 (Riga, 2004), p. 179 with ill..
Hinrichs Degerblad, Kathrin, “Interior layers of Paint – Investigation, Sabile Synagogue,” in Managing Building Conservation: Building Preservation and Maintenance in Practice, Seminar in Riga, November 2001, Ann Lepp ed. (Stockholm: Swedish National Heritage Board, 2003), 14–15.
Likhodedov, Vladimir, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 419 on p. 215.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2007
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 57.045471, 22.572054