Choral Temple

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Choral Temple
Bucharest, synagogue

Bucharest, synagogue

Data
place Bucharest
architect Enderle and Freiwald
Construction year 1867
Coordinates 44 ° 25 '51 "  N , 26 ° 6' 24"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 25 '51 "  N , 26 ° 6' 24"  E

The Choral-Tempel (also Choral-Synagoge or Choral-Synagoge , Romanian Templul Coral ) is a synagogue in the III. Sector on Strada Sfânta Vineri 9 in Bucharest . With 300 places for men and women each, it is the largest synagogue in Romania .

history

The synagogue was built from 1864 to 1867 according to the plans of the architects Enderle and Freiwald. After an earthquake in November 1940, the synagogue was devastated by the Iron Guard in January 1941 , restored in 1945 and is now once again used as a prayer house by the Jewish community. In 2004, the building was under the Classification Code II-mA 19672-B into the Romanian list of listed included building.

description

The Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna served as a model, which served as a model for a number of other European synagogues in the oriental style . Examples are the Zagreb Synagogue , the Spanish Synagogue in Prague, and the Tempel Synagogue in Krakow .

literature

  • Carol Herselle Krinsky: Europe's synagogues. Architecture, history and meaning. Fourier, Wiesbaden 1997, pp. 141-143, ISBN 3-925037-89-6

Web links

Commons : Choral Temple  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Books.google.de , Birgitta Gabriela Hannover: Bucharest: The Romanian capital and its surroundings , Trescher Verlag 2008, ISBN 3-89794-120-1
  2. ^ Ekkehard Völkl: Romania. From the 19th century to the present. Pustet, Regensburg 1995, p. 253. ISBN 978-3-7917-1463-9
  3. ↑ Anne Kotzan: Romania. Baedeker, Ostfildern 2009, p. 202. ISBN 978-3-8297-1172-2
  4. ↑ Anne Kotzan: Romania. Baedeker, Ostfildern 2009, p. 202. ISBN 978-3-8297-1172-2
  5. ↑ Carol Krinsky Herselle: Synagogues of Europe. Architecture, history, meaning. Dover Publications, New York 1996, p. 153. ISBN 0-486-29078-6
  6. ↑ www.pmb.ro (PDF; 588 kB), Lista monumentelor istorice 2004. Municipiul București