Vincennes Synagogue
The Synagogue of Vincennes is a synagogue in Vincennes , a town in the region of Ile-de-France in the department of Val-de-Marne , located southeast of Paris followed. It is located at 30 rue Céline-Robert. The nearest metro station is Saint-Mandé-Tourelle on line 1 .
history
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, the Jewish community in the Parisian suburbs of Saint-Mandé and Vincennes grew rapidly due to immigrants from Alsace-Lorraine . At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe also came. In 1901 the consistory of Paris decided to found a legally independent Jewish community in Saint-Mandé. In 1903 the consistory acquired a plot of land to build a synagogue. With the financial support of the patron Daniel Iffla (1825–1907), who among other things had financed the synagogues of Tours , Lausanne and Tunis and the synagogue of Rue Buffault in Paris , the Synagogue of Vincennes was inaugurated on September 5, 1907. Daniel Iffla commissioned Victor Tondu , who also built the synagogue in Tours, to be the architect. The construction work was supervised by the architect of the consistory, Lucien Hesse .
architecture
The synagogue can accommodate 160 people. It is located in a courtyard that also houses the rabbi's house and office. A portal porch with a star of David carved on its gable leads to an anteroom. The facade of the synagogue is crowned by the tablets of the law . The triangular gable is adorned with blind arcades and a stone rose window . The women's gallery is located above the entrance and is illuminated by three twin windows. There were also places for women and children at the back of the ground floor, which were separated from the men's places by a curtain. At the eastern end of the ship is the Torah shrine , above which three large windows open in the east wall. As is customary in the synagogues of the consistory, the bima stands in front of the Torah shrine.
Synagogue of the Sephardic Rite
When a large number of North African Jews immigrated from Algeria , Morocco and Tunisia in the 1960s and who practiced the Sephardic rite , the traditional Ashkenazi community initially provided them with an outbuilding. In February 2005 a new Sephardic synagogue ( Synagoge Beth Raphael ) was inaugurated, which was attached to the Ashkenazi synagogue.
literature
- Dominique Jarrassé: Guide du Patrimoine Juif Parisien. Parigramme, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84096-247-0 , pp. 91-92.
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 51.6 " N , 2 ° 25 ′ 10.4" E