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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…

Contributor:

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.