Great Synagogue (Tykocin)

53.2056 22.7672Coordinates: 53 ° 12 '20.2 " N , 22 ° 46' 1.9" E

Poland

Great Synagogue in Tykocin

Interior view with Bima (2013)

The Great Synagogue in Tykocin , a Polish city in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , was built in 1642 on the site of a previous wooden building from the 15th century. The secular synagogue on Kozia-Strasse, next to the Small Synagogue , has been a protected cultural monument since 1957 .

Besides the synagogue in the Belarusian city of Slonim , this is the only synagogue from the 17th century in which the supporting bima has been preserved almost unchanged.

The baroque synagogue was devastated by the German occupiers during World War II and used as a warehouse. In the 1970s the building was renovated.

Today a Jewish museum is housed in the synagogue building.

Individual evidence

↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish - Lithuania Commonwealth. Page 228. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2017, ISBN 978-83-942344-3-0 . Detailed description.

Web links

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Great Synagogue in Tykocin at Virtual Shtetl (English)

[1] Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish - Lithuania Commonwealth. Page 228. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2017, ISBN 978-83-942344-3-0 . Detailed description.