Great Synagogue of Łódź
Wielka Synagoga w Łodzi
Religion
AffiliationReform Judaism
StatusDestroyed in 1939
Location
LocationŁódź, Poland
Geographic coordinates51°46′12″N 19°27′14″E / 51.77000°N 19.45389°E / 51.77000; 19.45389
Architecture
Architect(s)Adolf Wolff
StyleRomanesque Revival
Completed1881
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]

Prominent Łódż builder and architect Johann Steck (or, Jan Sztek, 1851–1914)[2] carried out construction of the Great Synagogue in 1881–1887, at the corner of ul. Zielona and al. Tadeusza Kościuszki (formerly ul. Spacerowa).

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.

Commemoration stone on the former site

See also

References

  1. The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944: 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Richard Lourie, Yale University Press, 1987, p. 28
  2. Stefański, Krzysztof (2009). Ludzie Ktory Zbudwali Łódż. Leksykon architektów i budowniczych miasta (in Polish). Łódź: Księży Młyn Dom Wydawniczy. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-83-61253-44-0.


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