1909–1918Synagogue
Children in the Road Outside the Synagogue
Two onion-domed towers stand over arcaded belfry stages on either side of the great arched portal, with a wheel window set in a gable of patterned brickwork above and the community house under its own hipped roof alongside. The whole front is polychrome brick, and a low brick wall with iron railings closes the forecourt. A tram car stands at the end of the street: the synagogue was finished in 1909 and the tram did not begin running until 1911, so the card cannot be earlier than 1911, while the Hungarian and German caption puts it before 1918.
About this place
The synagogue on Jevrejska street was built in 1905-1909 to a design by the Budapest architect Lipót Baumhorn, in Hungarian Secession style, with room for 900 worshippers; synagogues had stood on the same site since 1749. During the Second World War occupation, Jews of Novi Sad were imprisoned in the building before deportation to Nazi death camps; of the more than 4,000 Jews living in the city before the war, roughly 1,000 survived. The building served as a synagogue until about 1966 and since 2012 has been used as a cultural venue for concerts and Jewish holiday celebrations. It was designated a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance in 1983.
On the card
Ujvidék / Izr. templom / Isr. Tempel
- Date
- 1909–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25306, 19.84083
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 971 × 631 px
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