Prayer room in the Israelite hospital

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Prayer room in Byzantine-Romanesque style

The prayer room in the Israelite Hospital in Breslau was designed in 1899 by the Herold company in Berlin, which had previously received first prize in a competition. The building was completed in 1903 under the Breslau architects R. and P. Ehrlich and Otto Finster. The room was a simple rectangle. The wall with the Torah shrine had three windows, the Torah shrine was flanked by thin pairs of columns. The decoration was designed in a Byzantine-Romanesque style. Three-arched arcades rested on short neo-Romanesque columns with cube capitals. The paintings on the lower part of the walls showed, among other things, leaf and round flower ornaments. It was built on the model of the synagogues of Trieste and Essen .

literature

  • Carol Herselle Krinsky: Europe's synagogues. Architecture, history and meaning . Fourier, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-925037-89-6 , pp. 318-325 .