Great Synagogue (Łódź)
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Great Synagogue of Łódź | |
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Wielka Synagoga w Łodzi | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Reform Judaism |
Status | Destroyed in 1939 |
Location | |
Location | Łódź, Poland |
Geographic coordinates | 51°46′12″N 19°27′14″E / 51.77000°N 19.45389°ECoordinates: 51°46′12″N 19°27′14″E / 51.77000°N 19.45389°E |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Adolf Wolff |
Style | Romanesque Revival |
Completed | 1881 |
Dome(s) | 4 |
The Great Synagogue of Łódź (Polish: Wielka Synagoga w Łodzi) was a synagogue in Łódź, Poland, which was built in 1881. It was designed by Adolf Wolff and paid mostly by local industrialists, such as Izrael Poznański, Joachim Silberstein and Karol Scheibler.
It served the reformed congregation and was usually referred to as The Temple.[1]
The synagogue was burned to the ground by the Germans on the night of November 14, 1939, along with its Torah scrolls and interior fixtures. It was dismantled in 1940. Today the site is used as a parking lot.
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- ^ The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944: 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Richard Lourie, Yale University Press, 1987, p. 28
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- Synagogues completed in 1881
- Synagogues in Poland destroyed by Nazi Germany
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- Romanesque Revival synagogues
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