Synagogue (Ruschany)
The synagogue in Ruschany , a Belarusian town in the Pruschany district of Breszkaya Woblasz , was probably built in the middle of the 18th century. The synagogue was damaged during the Second World War and then used as a warehouse. Today the building is empty and in ruins.
architecture
The rectangular synagogue measures 18.5 × 25.5 m on the outside and is 8 m high. The main room, which served as the men's prayer room, was entered from the west through a vestibule over which the women's prayer rooms were located.
The main hall is almost square; in the middle is the bima; this is a so-called support bima consisting of three levels. However, it does not support a real vault, as the ceiling was only a plastered pseudo vault.
The building has large arched windows and there is also an oculus on the east wall above the Torah shrine . Only niches in the wall have been preserved of this itself. This was of a very simple shape and crowned by the tablets of the law .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish - Lithuania Commonwealth. Page 426. 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
- The Center for Jewish Art (description and photos from 1995 and 2019)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '54.3 " N , 24 ° 53' 18.3" E