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Obj. ID: 11858  Great Temple in Vatra Dornei, Romania

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 2010

The Great Synagogue in Vatra Dornei was built in 1902 in Neo-Moorish style. The building is crowned by a large cupola. The façades are pierced by horseshoe windows, large in the upper tier and slim twin windows in the lower one. The eastern and western facades are topped by tablets of the law.

 

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Great Temple in Vatra Dornei | Unknown
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Object Detail
Date
1898-1902
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction dates
Artist/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Historical Origin
Community
Congregation
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Location
Romania | Moldavia | Vatra Dornei
| 7 Noiembrie St. (54 Mihai Eminescu St.)
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Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
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Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
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Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Bibliography
Aristide Streja and Lucian Schwarz, Sinagogi din România (Bucharest, 1996) = Synagogues of Romania ([Bucharest]: Hasefer Publishing House, 1997), p. 92, 190, ills 74-75; Sefer ha-zikaron shel yehudei vatra-dornei ve-ha-svivah, bukovina-romaniya, ed. Yitshak Yelun ([Tel Aviv], 2001), p. 16, 68, 73-75, 83, 560, ills. on cover, after p. 16; Hugo Gold (ed.), Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina, 2 vols (Tel Aviv, 1958-1962), vol. 2, p. 83, ill. after p. 96
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