Synagogue (Versailles)

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Synagogue Versailles, view of the facade with tablets of the law

The Versailles Synagogue is located in the city of Versailles in the west of the French capital Paris .

Building

The synagogue , built between 1884 and 1886, is located at 10, rue Albert Joly. It is one of the oldest synagogues in Île-de-France and was built by the architect Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe , who designed other synagogues. The inauguration took place on September 22, 1886. The synagogue was financed by Cécile Furtado-Heine (1821-1896), the wife of the banker Charles Heine , an uncle of the writer Heinrich Heine .

The synagogue is built in the typical synagogue architecture of Western Europe of that time: a mixture of neo-Romanesque and neo-Byzantine style elements. Twin windows and buttresses are the external features. During this time the previous modesty was abandoned in the construction of synagogues, i. H. one could not see their function from the outside of earlier synagogue buildings, and the will to erect an imposing building is clearly recognizable here.

Bible verses are carved in Hebrew above the entrance .

While the synagogue was originally built for the Ashkenazi believers, it now serves the Sephardic rite, because the majority of the faithful come from Morocco . The grandfather of the well-known anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was the rabbi of this synagogue. To the left of the synagogue is the rabbi's house with a small prayer room whose glass windows can be seen from the street.

organ

The synagogue houses an organ that was presumably built in 1887 by the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll with five stops on one manual . Later the instrument was extensively rebuilt and expanded and today has 16 stops on three manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Grand Orgue C – c 3
Quintaton 16 ′
Montre 8th'
Prestant 4 ′
Duplicate 2 ′
Carillon III
Trumpets 8th'
II positive C – c 3
Bourdon 8th'
Salicet 4 ′
Cor de nuit 2 ′
Cromorne 8th'
Tremblant doux
III Récit C – c 3
Viol 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Cornet IV
Tremblant gone
Pedale C – g 1
Soubasse 16 ′
Basson 16 ′
Tuba solo 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P

literature

  • Dominique Jarrassé: Guide du Patrimoine Juif Parisien. Parigrams, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84096-247-0 .

Web links

Commons : Synagogue (Versailles)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Information on the organ (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 37.9 ″  N , 2 ° 8 ′ 12 ″  E