Kaunas Synagogue
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Designed by Justyn Golinewicz and Edmund von Mikwitz in an eclectic mix of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Moorish Revival styles, the building was completed in 1872[1] and is one of two operating choral synagogues in Lithuania.[2]
History
In 1902, before the Holocaust in Lithuania, it was one of over 25 synagogues and Jewish prayer houses in the city.[3] The radically designed synagogue claims to have one of the most beautiful arks in the entire Jewish world.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The plot for the new synagogue was bestowed to the Kovno Jewish community by the merchant Lewin Boruch Minkowski, the father of Oskar Minkowski and Hermann Minkowski; until 1873 he also subsidized the major part of its construction.[4][5] A memorial to the estimated 50,000 Lithuanian Jewish children killed during the Holocaust can be found at the rear of the building, complete with 37 stone tablets showing in which towns and cities they lost their lives and just how many of them died in each one.
On 20 April 2011, the anniversary of Hitler's birthday, a sign saying "Jews out" and "Hitler was right" ("Juden raus" "Hitleris buvo teisus") were hung in front of the synagogue.[6]
Gallery
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Synagogue entrance
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Structure on the synagogue roof
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General view
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Holocaust memorial in front of the synagogue
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Synagogue interior
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Synagogue interior
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Synagogue interior
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Synagogue interior
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Synagogue interior
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Synagogue interior
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Plaques with those Jewish soldiers fallen in World War I and Holocaust victims from Kaunas
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See also
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External links
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- Buildings and structures in Kaunas
- History of Kaunas
- Jews and Judaism in Kaunas
- Landmarks in Kaunas
- Moorish Revival architecture in Lithuania
- Moorish Revival synagogues
- Orthodox synagogues in Lithuania
- Renaissance Revival architecture in Lithuania
- Renaissance Revival synagogues
- Synagogues completed in 1872