Synagogue (Śniadowo)

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Synagogue in Śniadowo (around 1915)

The synagogue in Śniadowo , a Polish parish in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , was built in 1768. The wooden synagogue was destroyed during the First World War.

history

On a beam of the vault was the year 1768. It is therefore assumed that this was the date of completion of the building.

Over the years the synagogue has been rebuilt and renovated several times, the last time at the beginning of the 1880s.

During the First World War the synagogue was burned down by Russian soldiers. After the war a new synagogue was built on the same site. This was demolished in World War II and the building materials were used elsewhere,

architecture

The building was described as a magnificent, monumental, art-historically important wooden structure . It consisted of a square (12 × 12 m) large main hall. The walls were six meters high; to the highest point of the vault it was 10.20 m. The floor was a few steps lower than the outer rooms.

On the west side there was a vestibule and above it a gallery with arcades . A two-story corner pavilion stood to the right and left. The north and south sides were flanked by women's dreams.

The main building had a three- story tent roof , with the upper step transitioning to an octagonal point. The corner pavilions had a two-story roof.

Inside, four wooden pillars supported the vault; they divided the floor plan into nine equally sized fields. In the middle stood the bima ; it was in the shape of an octagonal arbor with a canopy with a crown on top.

See also

Web links

Commons : Synagogue (Śniadowo)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • [1] Description, pictures (English). Retrieved January 28, 2020
  • [2] Description, pictures (English). Retrieved January 28, 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth page 511 ff. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2015, ISBN 978-83-942048-6-0 . Detailed description.
  2. ^ Paul Clemen , Helmut Grisebach: Art monuments and monument protection in the Generalgouvernement Warsaw . In: Paul Clemen (Ed.): Art Protection in War , Volume 2, Leipzig 1919, p. 87.

Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 18.3 ″  N , 21 ° 59 ′ 31.1 ″  E