Synagogue (Kamjanka-Buska)
The wooden synagogue in Kamjanka-Buska , a city in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine , was built in the first half of the 17th century and destroyed in World War II.
history
The first Jews settled in Kamjanka-Buska as early as 1440. In 1627 they received permission to build a synagogue. But this was most likely, like almost the entire place, destroyed during the Swedish Wars around 1655.
In 1730 or shortly before the main hall of a new synagogue was built. The Bima could be dated exactly to 1730. Parts of the multi-colored wall paintings were from 1755. Towards the end of the 18th century a gallery was built on the west wall. Further extensions with the prayer rooms for women came from the first half of the 19th century. Damage from the First World War was repaired in the interwar period. After the invasion of German troops in World War II , it was burned down towards the end of 1941, while at the same time the Jewish population of the place was almost completely murdered.
architecture
The main hall, built from horizontal beams, was almost square at 13.00 × 12.00 m. The height of the walls was 7.50 m; it was 9.50 m to the top of the vault. It had a two-tiered roof. In its construction it was a gable roof, which however showed itself as a mansard roof with front gables through two rows of extensions . A vestibule was later added to the west side and the prayer room for women on the first floor. Further women's rooms were on the north and south sides. The main hall and the women's prayer room each had their own vault.
The octagonal bima in the middle of the hall, richly decorated with wood carvings, was in the shape of a small arbor-like chapel.
The Torah shrine was a cupboard adorned with floral motifs and standing on a desk.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Rzeczpospolita of Poland and Lithuania. Page 337 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.
- ↑ Alois Breyer: Wood Synagogues in Poland , 1934, p. 16 f.
