Boulogne-Billancourt Synagogue
The Synagogue of Boulogne-Billancourt in the town of Boulogne-Billancourt is a synagogue in the Region Ile-de-France and is part of the Hauts-de-Seine , located in the southwest of Paris followed. It is located at 43, rue des Abondances. The nearest metro station is Boulogne - Pont de Saint-Cloud on line 10 .
history
As early as 1864, the Jews living in Boulogne-Billancourt, the former Boulogne-sur-Seine, owned a prayer room. In 1877 a legally independent Jewish community was founded in the western suburb of Paris and the construction of a synagogue was planned. However, the plans could not be realized because the community could not raise the funds for the construction. In contrast to the neighboring parish of Neuilly-sur-Seine , which was able to inaugurate its synagogue in 1878, the synagogue of Boulogne-Billancourt was built over thirty years later. In 1910, the Association cultuelle israélite de Paris (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde von Paris, ACIP), chaired by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, decided to build the synagogue and he and his wife Adelheid de Rothschild took over - as for two other synagogues in Paris (the synagogue Chasseloup- Laubat and the synagogue of Rue Sainte-Isaure in Montmartre ) - the funding. The synagogue was inaugurated on September 21, 1911.
Adelheid de Rothschild was the great-granddaughter of Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855), the founder of the family dynasty . She came from the Neapolitan branch and was the cousin of her husband, a grandson of Amschel Mayer Rothschild. Edmond's father Jakob Rothschild , also known as Baron James de Rothschild, bought Boulogne Castle in 1817 and built a summer residence on the site, which his youngest son Edmond inherited. In the associated park, the Rothschilds ceded a plot of land on the corner of Rue des Abondances and Rue de l'Abreuvoir for the construction of the synagogue. They appointed Emmanuel Pontremoli (1865–1956) as the architect . He was the grandson of a rabbi and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1890 . His attention was drawn to the Villa Kérylos , a replica of an ancient Greek villa that he built between 1902 and 1908 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the Côte d'Azur for the archaeologist and classical philologist Théodore Reinach . From 1932 to 1939 Pontremoli was director of the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.
architecture
Like the Synagogue of Neuilly-sur-Seine , the Synagogue of Boulogne-Billancourt has orientalizing stylistic elements. It is built over a square plan and is vaulted by an octagonal dome . In the narthex above are the stairs that lead to the women's galleries.
Furnishing
The Torah shrine is opposite the entrance and, according to tradition, faces east ( Misrach ). The twin windows above the Torah shrine symbolize the tablets of the law , which are also shown in stylized form on the capitals of the columns . Under the dome is an open roof truss, the wooden beams of which are decorated with geometric motifs. The painting is by Gustave-Louis Jaulmes , who also created the wall paintings in Villa Kérylos. On the frieze of the facade as well as on the balustrades of the gallery, intertwined vine tendrils are depicted, which alternate on the balustrades with Hebrew inscriptions, the first words of the Jewish creed, Shema Yisrael : Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is only ( Deuteronomy , 6.4).
literature
- Dominique Jarrassé: Guide du Patrimoine Juif Parisien. Parigramme, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84096-247-0 , pp. 93-95.
- Georges Poisson (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments d'Île de France. Hervas, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84334-002-0 , p. 135 and 137.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 51 ″ N , 2 ° 13 ′ 48.5 ″ E