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Wolpa Synagogue Cross section of a wooden synagogue. Wooden synagogues are an original style of vernacular synagogue architecture that emerged in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. [1] [2] The style developed between the mid-16th and mid-17th centuries, a period of peace and prosperity for the Polish-Lithuanian Jewish community.
Lille Synagogue, France.An eclectic hybrid with Moorish, Romanesque, classical and Baroque elements, 1892. Synagogue of the Kaifeng Jewish community in China. The ark may be more or less elaborate, even a cabinet not structurally integral to the building or a portable arrangement whereby a Torah is brought into a space temporarily used for worship.
[72] [1] Some surviving 13th and 14th-century Jewish synagogues were also built (or rebuilt) in Mudéjar Moorish style while under Christian rule, such as the Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca in Toledo (rebuilt in its current form in 1250), [73] Synagogue of Cordoba (1315), [74] and the Synagogue of El Tránsito (1355–1357). [75] [76]
The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt and house of assembly with painted walls depicting people and animals, and a Torah shrine in the western wall facing Jerusalem. It was built backing on to the city wall, which was important in ...
The Great Synagogue of Rome (Italian: Tempio Maggiore di Roma) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that is located at Lungotevere de' Cenci, in Rome, in Lazio, Italy. Designed by Vincenzo Costa and Osvaldo Armanni in an eclectic mix of Historicism and Art Nouveau styles, the synagogue was completed in 1904. [ 1 ]
According to Künzl, the synagogue in Leipzig created a type of synagogue that served as a model for many subsequent synagogue buildings. [98] In 1903/1904 Oscar Schade delivered the designs for the Brody Synagogue, designed in the “neo-Moorish style”, [99] the interior of which (Torah ark, Bimah) was destroyed during the pogrom night of 9/ ...
The facade features elaborate ornamentation on multiple levels, but it avoids the decorative overload seen in the central part of the building.The roofline of this wing is adorned with pinnacles, gargoyles, and a balustrade with motifs of bellows and mouchettes, whose curving and counter-curving motifs seem to evoke, as Michelet put it, "flames ...
Parabolic vault – An architectural vault with a parabolic cross section. Hyperbolic paraboloid vault. Ploughshare vault – A Rib vault where the wall ribs spring from a higher position than those of the diagonal ribs. Quadripartite vault – A Rib vault where the bay is divided by diagonal and transverse ribs into four cells or webs.