Great Synagogue (Włodawa)
The Great Synagogue was a synagogue on Czerwony Krzyż Street Nr. 7 in Włodawa , the county town of the district włodawa county in the Polish province Lublin , where few kilometers away during the German occupation of Poland, the Nazi death camp Sobibor was built.
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The sacred building was built between 1764 and 1774 according to plans by the architect Paweł Antoni Fontana. The neo-baroque Torah shrine from 1936 is remarkable . Damaged during World War II , the synagogue was restored in 1983 to serve as a museum.
The Menorah in the Great Synagogue
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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 1 ″ N , 23 ° 33 ′ 2 ″ E