Synagogue in Tukums
Object Detail
Building Date
1865
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
After 1945
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Sport facility
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Wooden vault
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
CJA documentation;
Pinkas hakehilot: Latviyah ve-estoniyah (Jerusalem, 1988), p. 135;
/www.geocities.com/bgephartnet/tukums/pictures/synagogue.jpg;
Menahem Barkahan, Rita Bogdanova & Meyer Meler, Latvia: Synagogues, Jewish Cemeteries, Burial Places of the Holocaust Victims. Map of Memorable Places of Jewish History (Riga, 2005)
Bogdanova, Rita. Latvija: Sinagogas un rabīni, 1918-1940 / Latvia: Synagogues and Rabbis, 1918-1940 (Riga, 2004), pp. 194-195, ill. on p. 196.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2007
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 56.966251, 23.154741