Stara Synagogue of Łódź

Stara Synagogue of Łódź - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Stara Synagogue, also known as Alte Szil and ‘’’Alt Stodt Shul’’’ meaning Old Town Synagogue was a "beautiful"According to Shimon Huberband (1909-1942), who while living in the Warsaw Ghetto collaborated in the Oyneg Shabes archive, Sotheby's catalogue note http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159511856 synagogue in Łódź, Poland. The name Stara means old, many Polish cities called the oldest synagogue in town the Stara synagogue. The Stara was Łódź's principal Orthodox synagogue. It was built by Orthodox industrial magnates who wished to outshine, or at least compete with, the 1881 Great Synagogue (Łódź) built by the Reformed Jewish community.The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Richard Lourie, Yale University Press, 1987, p. 28 Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
date from: 1861

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