jhe Thanks to a nearly £350,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, a Jewish Heritage Centre will be established in the grand Garnethill synagogue in Glasgow, Scotland — a Grade A listed building that was Scotland’s first purpose-built synagogue. The Fund … continue reading →
The World Monuments Fund has mounted an online exhibition about the history and architecture of the striking, art nouveau synagogue in Subotica, Serbia, which has been undergoing fitful — and as yet incomplete — restoration for decades. With its … continue reading →
We posted the other day about restoration work on the exterior of the magnificent Neolog Synagogue in Szeged, Hungary…. In case you were wondering what this grandly opulent building, the masterpiece of the Hungarian architect Lipot Baumhorn, looks like … continue reading →
Work has begun in earnest on the restoration of the magnificent Neolog synagogue in Szeged, Hungary — the masterpiece of Lipot Baumhorn, pre-WW2 Europe’s most prolific synagogue architect. As we reported a year ago, the first stage of the … continue reading →
The historic Great Synagogue in Ludza, Latvia — dating from around 1800 and the oldest surviving synagogue in the country — will be rededicated on August 11 after a detailed restoration that included restoring the wooden structure and also … continue reading →
