Praga Synagogue (Warsaw)

Praga Synagogue

The Praga Synagogue ( Synagoga Praska in Polish ) was the synagogue of the Warsaw suburb of Praga and the only synagogue in Warsaw that was built as a rotunda.

history

Initially there was only one Jewish suburban community in Warsaw, which existed in the Warsaw suburb of Praga , which was named after Prague . Only privileged members of Warsaw's Praga community were allowed to live in the city of Warsaw. In 1836 the Praga Synagogue or suburban synagogue was built according to plans by Józef Grzegorz Lessel , which replaced the Old Praga Synagogue from 1819. The synagogue was one of only six round synagogues in Europe at that time. It was located on the corner of the then Ulica Petersburska and Ulica Szeroka or today's Ulica Jagiellońska and Ulica Wójcika and was designed in the classical style. In addition to the rotunda , it had four symmetrical atria.

During the occupation of Warsaw , the synagogue was used by the German occupiers as a delousing point. It was damaged in the course of the Second World War , but was preserved. It was not until 1961 that the city administration ordered the demolition of the synagogue due to its ruinous condition - despite an entry in the monument protection register. In 2009, plans were announced to rebuild the building.

Individual evidence

↑ according to: Marian Marek Drozdowski: Warszawiacy i ich miasto w latach Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej (= Biblioteka Wiedzy Historycznej. Historia Polski. ). Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw 1973, p. 85 , (in Polish).
↑ ^a ^b according to: Joram Kagan: Hippocrene insider's guide to Poland's Jewish heritage. Hippocrene Books, New York NY 1992, ISBN 0-87052-991-9 .
↑ according to Information about the architect of the synagogue at Twoja-Praga.pl (in Polish)
^ According to: Jan Jagielski: Jewish sites in Warsaw. City of Warsaw, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 83-911138-5-X .
↑ according to Tomasz Urzykowski: Kiedy wróci praska synagoga? ( Memento from July 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from September 6, 2009 at Gazeta.pl Kraj (in Polish)

Web links

Commons : Praga Synagogue - collection of images, videos and audio files

Information about the synagogue (in Polish)
Information with historical photo (undamaged) at Twoja-Praga.pl (in Polish)

52.251388888889 21.034722222222Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 5 ″ N , 21 ° 2 ′ 5 ″ E

[1] rding to: Marian Marek Drozdowski: Warszawiacy i ich miasto w latach Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej (= Biblioteka Wiedzy Historycznej. Historia Polski. ). Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw 1973, p. 85 , (in Polish).

[Joram-2] rding to: Joram Kagan: Hippocrene insider's guide to Poland's Jewish heritage. Hippocrene Books, New York NY 1992, ISBN 0-87052-991-9 .

[3] rding to Information about the architect of the synagogue at Twoja-Praga.pl (in Polish)

[4] According to: Jan Jagielski: Jewish sites in Warsaw. City of Warsaw, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 83-911138-5-X .

[5] rding to Tomasz Urzykowski: Kiedy wróci praska synagoga? ( Memento from July 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from September 6, 2009 at Gazeta.pl Kraj (in Polish)