Buzău, RO

Temple in Buzău

A building of the Temple was constructed in 1903-1910. It combines the features of the Neo-Moorish style, popular emong European Jews, with those of the Neo-Romanian style, popular in the country as its national artistic expression. Although the Temple is a magnificent building crowned with three cupolas, is it situated inside a block, screened from the street by the building of the Jewish school. The Temple was repaired in 1946 with the assistance of the Joint Distribution Committee and therefore its photographs are preserved in the JDC archives in New York and the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem. Nonetheless, currently the Temple is in a deteriorated state and it is dangerous to enter it.

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Synagogue in Râmnicu Sărat

The Synagogue in Râmnicu Sărat was reportedly built in 1855. Sixteen lancet windows on the north side, six on the south side, and four on the east side give light to the prayer hall. A second tier of small round windows lights the women's gallery. The windows are decorated on the building exterior with intervening pilasters and curved blind arches. A semicircular apse on the east side of the building marks the niche of the Torah ark. The vestibule of the synagogue serves as a small prayer room and leads to the main prayer hall. The women's gallery occupies an upper tier (balcony) that compasses the main prayer hall on three sides.

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