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© Centropa, Photographer: Gruenfeld, Daniel, 2016, Negative/Photo. No. A363044.

The Craftsmen's Synagogue was first erected in 1834 and rebuilt in 1908. Its square building measures 8 x 8 m and looks like a typical rich urban house blending with its surrounding. It is situated at the corner of two streets and entered from the west. The façades are divided by pilasters into three bays, each pierced by a high round-headed opening, which comprises a square window lighting the prayer hall in the lower tier and a round-headed window of the women’s gallery in the upper one.

On the eastern façade, instead of a traditional round window above the Torah ark, there are two round windows, flanking the interior placement of the ark. Both windows have glazing in form of the Star of David.

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The vestibule of the synagogue serves also as a small prayer room, perhaps for conducting prayer in winter.

The square prayer hall is surrounded on the three sides by a women’s gallery on metal columns; its parapet is decorated with the images of the Tribes of Israel. The continuations of those columns support also a domical vault, which features stars, sun and moon. Views of the Land of Israel are depicted on the perimeter of the vault.

The eastern wall of the prayer hall is richly adorned, assuming an illusionistic theatrical appearance: The Torah ark is placed against a background of a painted open curtain with golden ropes. A similar curtain is painted also on the opposite, western wall of the hall, flanking a wide entrance door. 

The Torah ark contains a shrine for the scrolls, surmounted by an upper carved part. This part consists of a canopy, inscribed “And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon ark” (Exodus 25:21), topped by two birds flanking a basin, a foliage, where two lions hold the Tablets of the Law, surmounted by a crown and by priestly hands, and a double-headed eagle without crowns.

In front of the ark stands an elaborated amud. A simpler amud is situated in the vestibule, used as a small prayer room during winters.

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Craftsmen's Synagogue in Tecuci | Unknown
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Western facade
Date
1834, 1908
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Romania | Moldavia | Tecuci
| 5 Bran St.
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Boris Khaimovich | 2012
Researcher
Boris Khaimovich | 2012
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