The Jewish Museum in the 17th century former synagogue in Tykocin, Poland, plans to install replicas of the original furnishings in the sanctuary, including the cabinet of the Ark.
Virtual Shtetl, quoting local media, reports that the replicas will be based on photos taken between the two world wars by Szymon Zajczyk, the researcher whose photos are the only documentation of many masonry and wooden synagogues that were destroyed in World War II. The reports state that the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has donated 88,500 zlotys (approx $30,000) for the project.
The synagogue in Tykocin, originally built in 1742, is a massive masonry building with a high mansard roof. Desecrated during World War II, it was rebuilt and restored in the 1970s and opened on Nov. 1, 1976 as a Judaica museum that is a branch of the Podlaskie District Museum in Bialystok.
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