Rijeka Orthodox Synagogue
| Rijeka Orthodox Synagogue | |
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 The synagogue in 2008 | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Orthodox Judaism |
| Ecclesiastical or organisational status | Synagogue |
| Status | Active |
| Location | |
| Location | 9 Ivana Filipovića Street, Rijeka |
| Country | Croatia |
  Location of the synagogue in Croatia | |
| Geographic coordinates | 45°19′52″N 14°26′03″E / 45.331057°N 14.434284°E |
| Architecture | |
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| Type | Synagogue architecture |
| Style | Rationalism |
| Completed | 1931 |
| Materials | Red brick; marble |
| Official name | Synagogue (Croatian: Sinagoga) |
| Type | Immovable material heritage |
| Designated | March 27, 2008 |
| Reference no. | Z-341 |
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The Rijeka Orthodox Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located on Ivan Filipović Street, formerly Galvani Street (opposite the Faculty of Economics), in Rijeka in Croatia. The synagogue was built in a Rationalist style in 1931 (when Rijeka was part of Italy). It is one of the very few synagogues in Croatian territory to have survived the destruction of the Nazi period.
History[edit]
The small orthodox synagogue of Rijeka was completed in 1931 to meet the needs of the Orthodox Jews who were in the minority in Rijeka compared to the large Jewish community, which met in the majestic Great Synagogue of Rijeka (built in 1903 and destroyed by the Nazis in 1944).[2]
The project was entrusted to the architects Győzo Angyal and Pietro Fabbro. Together with the synagogue of Genoa,[3] it is one of only two examples of a modern-style synagogue built in Italy during the Fascist period.
The synagogue has a simple tripartite façade with a central body in red brick and stone slabs with two doors (one of which under a portico leads directly to the women's gallery) and two small windows with an ornamental reference to the Star of David. The interior has a single room with the raised balcony of the women's gallery overlooking the entrance.[4] The Italian-style marble tabernacle containing the holy ark with the books of the Torah was a gift in 1934 from the Jews of Trieste to the Fiuman confreres (until then it adorned the Schola grande in Piazza delle Scuole israelitiche in Trieste).
The Orthodox synagogue in Rijeka is one of the very few synagogues in Croatian territory that survived the destruction of the Holocaust. The temple remained standing, because during the Nazi occupation it was used as an ammunition depot, while the large synagogue in Rijeka was destroyed on January 25, 1944. After the war, the small Orthodox synagogue was thus able to house the few surviving Rijeka Jews of that which until a few years earlier was a thriving community of over 2,000 members.[5]
The Orthodox synagogue became nationalized property on December 5, 1956. In 1996 it was declared a monument of historical and cultural interest of the city.[4] In 2005–2008 it underwent major restoration works.[6][7] The small Rijeka community (now reduced to a hundred members) uses it today for major holidays with the assistance of the neighboring communities of Trieste and Zagreb.
See also[edit]
Gallery[edit]
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Interior of the synagogue -
Project approval on 30 September 1930
References[edit]
- ^ "Sinagoga". Pretraživanje Registra kulturnih dobara Republike Hrvatske (in Croatian). Ministarstvo kulture i medija Republike Hrvatske. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
- ^ "La sinagoga di Fiume". Kvarner (in Italian). ENTE TURISTICO DELLA REGIONE DEL QUARNERO.
- ^ "Synagogue of Genoa". Visit Jewish Italy. Fondazione per i Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia. 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
- ^ a b "Synagogue". Rijeka Heritage. Rijecke Industrije. March 27, 2008.
- ^ Ballarini, Amleto (1999). Il tributo fiumano all'Olocausto (in Italian) (a cura di ed.). Roma, Italy: Societa' di studi fiumani / Associazione per la cultura fiumana, istriana e dalmata nel Lazio.
- ^ "The Rijeka Synagogue rebuilding". Arhitektonsko-građevinski atelje. March 27, 2018.
- ^ "Trieste ebraica (il restauro della sinagoga)" (in Italian). Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
Bibliography[edit]
- Falk, Federico (2012). Le comunità israelitiche di Fiume e Abbazia tra le due guerre mondiali (in Italian). Roma, Italy.
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