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The Synagogue of Gwoździec, Galicia
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Wooden synagogues were a distinctive style of vernacular architecture that first developed in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century and then flourished in the…

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Photographer Unknown

Places:

Gwoździec, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Hvizdets, Ukraine)

Date:

Mid–17th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Ashkenazi, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of wooden building exterior with several layers of roofs.
Klausen Synagogue (Prague)
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The Klausen Synagogue in Prague gets its name from the kloyz (a complex of buildings used for religious purposes, including synagogues) that originally stood on its site, erected in the 1570s. The…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Cities, Ritual & observance, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of room interior with Torah ark, chandelier, and tall arched doorways.
Interior of the Synagogue in Fürth
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This print depicting a service in the synagogue in Fürth is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400 Jewish…

Contributor:

Johannes Alexander Böner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1705

Subjects:

Synagogue, Jewish quarters, Community, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Architecture
Print engraving of large room with rows of pews with men in prayer shawls standing with books, vaulted ceiling, many chandeliers, and raised platform along far wall.