Neuilly-sur-Seine synagogue
The Synagogue of Neuilly-sur-Seine in the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine is a synagogue in the Region Ile-de-France and is part of the Hauts-de-Seine , located in the west of Paris followed. It is located at 12, rue Ancelle. The nearest metro station is Les Sablons on line 1 .
history
As early as 1872, the Jews of Neuilly owned a prayer room in a private house (15, rue Louis-Philippe). In 1875 a legally independent Jewish community was founded in Neuilly under the chairman Godechaux Oulry, who came from Lorraine , and a decision was made to build a synagogue. Émile Ulmann (1844–1902), a young Jewish architect who had been awarded the Prix de Rome , was commissioned as the architect . The construction of the synagogue was his first assignment. In 1878 the synagogue on Rue Jacques Dulud was inaugurated. She is the oldest of the Parisian suburban synagogues.
The first rabbi of Neuilly was Simon Debré (1854–1939). He was the father of the famous pediatrician Robert Debré and the architect Germain Debré and the grandfather of Michel Debré , who was Prime Minister under Charles de Gaulle from 1959 to 1962 .
In the 1930s the Jewish community had grown to 6,000 people and the synagogue had to be enlarged. The renovations were carried out by the architects Germain Debré, the son of the rabbi Simon Debré, and Julien Hirsch . The new synagogue was inaugurated on October 24, 1937.
Under the Vichy regime , Rabbi Robert Meyers and his wife Suzanne, b. Bauer, deported to Auschwitz in 1943. A plaque commemorates the deportation of the Jews from Neuilly.
architecture
The synagogue originally had a square floor plan and the entrance was on Rue Jacques Dulud. There are still the two pavilions, which are crowned by the tablets of the law and in the middle of which there is a portal with the Hebrew inscription from the Book of Psalms ( Ps 118,19 EU ): Open the gates to justice for me so that I can enter Thank god . The building is roofed by a large dome , which is broken by 24 windows and goes back to the Byzantine- inspired building by the architect Uhlmann. When the synagogue was rebuilt in the 1930s, the entrance was moved to Rue Ancelle and the nave was lengthened. The new entrance is provided with a series of seven round arched arcades and two oculi that enclose the Star of David . The Star of David is also depicted above the entrance, above which the tablets of the Law are enthroned, and on the capitals of the pillars . The interior is designed in the style of the 30s.
Web links
- Synagogue of Neuilly-sur-Seine (French)
- Description at the French Ministry of Culture
literature
- Dominique Jarrassé: Guide du Patrimoine Juif Parisien. Parigramme, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84096-247-0 , pp. 86-87.
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 50.88 " N , 2 ° 16 ′ 6.07" E