1909–1950Synagogue
The synagogue dome over the snow
A narrow winter view along a path banked with deep snow, a single set of wheel ruts running down it. The great dome of the synagogue closes the view at the left, its ribbed drum and the ring of gabled openings around it carrying a lantern and finial, all of it under a load of snow. Below and before it the lower roofs and a gabled porch of the synagogue complex step down among small bare trees. The right of the frame is filled by a large tree, its trunk and every branch outlined in snow, and below it a balustraded terrace wall runs down toward the path with a flight of steps behind. Three figures in dark winter coats stand together on the path at the foot of the wall.
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
- 1909–1950
- Coordinates
- 45.25306, 19.84083
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 720 × 1138 px
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