A Fragment of the Altar of a Synagogue in Mariampol

Valerii Rybarskii

1902

Photograph of wooden structure with two small columns of Hebrew writing with crown on top, and two sculped lions on either side.
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Valerii Rybarskii

Mid- to Late 19th–Early 20th Century

Valerii Rybarskii was an architect in Mariampol, then in the Russian Empire (now Marijampolė, Lithuania). In 1889, when the wooden bet midrash that stood in the city’s Khevre poalim kloyz (the workers’ private study house in the courtyard that also housed the city’s Great Synagogue) was on the verge of collapse, he designed a brick building to replace it. The design was approved in 1890. The Torah ark in the kloyz is surmounted by tablets of the Law flanked by rampant lions and topped with a crown, with hands making the priestly blessing. In 1899, Rybarskii designed the city’s Hakhnasat Orḥim Synagogue. His designs integrated neo-Romanesque, neo-Gothic, and “oriental” elements. Rybarskii also designed churches, incorporating similar architectural characteristics.

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