1918-1941Synagogue
Rooftops toward the synagogue
A high view out over the tiled roofs, blank party walls, chimneys and rear yards of the old town, taken from a tower. A street runs away to the right between shopfronts with balconies. In the middle distance the ribbed dome and flanking towers of the synagogue stand above the roofline, and beyond that the town thins into haze with a low ridge across the horizon. A flat roofed modern block stands among the pitched roofs at the left of centre.
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
- 1918-1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25306, 19.84083
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1459 × 888 px
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