1909Synagogue
The synagogue and its school buildings
The synagogue stands along the street with its great rose window under a gable, flanked by domed towers, and the community and school buildings run on beside it in the same brick and rendered banding. Young trees are planted along the pavement and groups of people stand in front of the entrances. A plainer gabled building closes the range at the left.
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.
- Date
- 1909
- Coordinates
- 45.25306, 19.84083
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1080 × 691 px
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