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Obj. ID: 12878  Great Synagogue in Włodawa, Poland

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Name/Title
Great Synagogue in Włodawa | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
Date
1764-1774
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction dates
19th c., 1934, 1970
Artist/ Maker
Historical Origin
Unknown
Community
Congregation
Unknown|
Location
Poland | Lublin Voivodeship | Włodawa (Wlodawa)
| 7 Czerwonego Krzyża St.
Site
Unknown
School/Style
Period
Unknown
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Collection
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Material/Technique
Material Stucture
Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
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Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
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Construction material
Brick
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Iconographical Subject
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Condition
Extant
Yes
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
yes
Present Usage
Museum
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style

The earliet known masonry synagogue with front corner pavilions, which probably allude to the description of the Herodian Temple in the Mishna and its its interpretation by r. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller. 

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Torah ark; interior painted stucco decoration.

Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)
Significance Rating
4 (International)
Languages of inscription
Unknown
Shape / Form
0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
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Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Group
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Bibliography

Amar, Ariella and Ruth Jacoby. Ingathering of the Nations. Treasures of Jewish Art: Documenting an Endangered Legacy (Jerusalem: Center for Jewish Art, 1998), p. 58-59 with ills..

Andrzej Trzciński, The Traces of Monuments of Jewish Culture in the Lublin Region ([Lublin], [1989]), p. 21, ill. after p. 16.

Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), p. 145 with ill..

Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), p. 159.

Kravtsov, Sergey, “The Modern-Time Theoretical Reconstructions of the Mishnaic Temple as a Source for Synagogue Architecture,” in Jewish Architecture: New Sources and Approaches, ed. Katrin Keßler and Alexander von Kienlin (Petersberg, 2015), p. 111.

Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 369-72 with ills. and ill. 415, 419.
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