Lendava Synagogue - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Lendava Synagogue - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Lendava Synagogue (, , ) is a former synagogue, currently a museum. It is located in the small town of Lendava, Slovenia, close to the Hungarian border. It was built in the 18th century and today has a permanent exhibition on the History of Jews in Lendava.Ruth Ellen Gruber, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe (National Geographic Books, 2007), , pp. 284-285. Excerpts available at Google Books. Near the synagogue was a Jewish school, which functioned from 1850 until the 1921 and was demolished in the end of the 1990s to allow the construction of a Hungarian cultural centre and a cemetery with 176 tombstones, about 40 from the second half of the 19th century, most of the rest from the 20th century near the village of Dolga Vas, just outside town. Read more on Wikipedia
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