Synagogues (Part 2)

Lublin: neoclassical, erected in the 19th-century as a house of prayer for the members of Chevra Nosim. At present a house of prayer and a remembrance room (ul. Lubartowska 10). Łańcut: a baroque synagogue built in 1761. Wall-paintings, aron ha-kodesh and bimah. At present it contains a Jewish museum. Międzyrzecz: a neoclassical building constructed in the mid-19th-century. Now used as a warehouse. Nowy Sącz: late baroque, built in the early 18th-century. Now houses a branch of the district museum (ul. Bóżnicza 1). Orla: a baroque synagogue built in the early 17th-century, bimah and wall-paintings preserved. Under reconstruction. Pińczów: a Renaissance construction from the turn of the 17th-century. Wall-paintings from the late 18th-century, interesting interior decorations (aron ha-kodesh). Now houses a Jewish museum (ul. Klasztorna). Przysucha: in the baroque/neoclassical style from 1777, aron ha-kodesh, bimah and wall-paintings preserved. Abandoned. Radzanów: an eclectic building with Moorish style elements , erected in 1907. Now a library (Plac Józefa Piłsudskiego 5). Rzeszów: New Town Synagogue in the Renaissance style built the 17th-century. Only the outer walls stood after WW II. The interior was reconstructed to house an art gallery. Old Town Synagogue: (ul. Bóżnicza 5) form the turn of the 17th-century, built in the Renaissance style. Reconstructed after the war to become the seat of the city archives. It also contains a Jewish historical research center. Sandomierz: a late-baroque synagogue built in 1758. Traces of wall -paintings from the 18th- and 19th- centuries. Destroyed by the Nazis, it was reconstructed to house district archives. The kahal building (ul. Basztowa), adjoining the synagogue from the north side, was also preserved. Sejny: a neoclassical building from the mid-19th-century, at present housing a cultural center. Szczebrzeszyn: a baroque synagogue, built before the mid-17th-century. Now a cultural center (ul. Sądowa 3). Szydłów: a Renaissance synagogue built before 1564. Its late-Renaissance stucco decorations and period interiors with aron ha-kodesh were preserved. Now houses a primary school (ul. Targowa). Tarnogród: a baroque synagogue built in 1696. Now a cultural center (ul. Rynek). Tykocin: a baroque building raised in 1642. Fragments of interior decorations (aron ha-kodesh and bimah) and wall -paintings preserved. Now the seat of the Jewish museum, which also occupies the adjacent building of the former beit ha-midrash - branch of the district museum of Białystok (ul. Kozia 2). Warsaw: a Neo-Romanesque synagogue founded by Załman and Rywka Nożyk in 1902. The synagogue is open for prayers and services. (ul. Twarda 6). Włodawa: a late-baroque synagogue built in the years 1764-1774, aron ha-kodesh and splendid wall-paintings preserved. Permanent exhibition of objects related to Jewish history, culture and religion. At present the building houses the Museum of the Łęczyńsko-Włodawskie Lake District (ul. Czerwonego Krzyża 7). Wrocław: the White Stork Synagogue was designed in the neoclassical style by K.F. Langhans and opened in 1829. Open for prayers and services (ul. Włodkowica 7). Zamość: a late-Renaissance building erected in 1620, with beautiful interior decorations (aron ha-kodesh and stucco works) preserved. Now a library (ul. Zamenhoffa 9).