between 1909 and 1918Synagogue
A tram and a cab at the synagogue
A hand-coloured card of the synagogue on Jevrejska street, its blue dome and flanking towers rising over the trees, with the adjoining Jewish community building at the right. A tramcar stands at the kerb behind a motor cab and a handcart, and a group of people has gathered on the pavement between them.
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
Ujvidék. Israelite temple.
- Date
- between 1909 and 1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25306, 19.84083
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1658 × 1067 px
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