New Orthodox Synagogue (Košice)

Košice Synagogue Synagóga v Košiciach
Religion
Affiliation	Orthodox Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Active Synagogue
Location
Location	Košice, Slovakia
Architecture
Architect(s)	Ľudovít Oelschläger
Completed	1927
Capacity	800

The New Orthodox Synagogue, Košice (Template:Lang-sk) was built in the years 1926–1927 at Puškinova Street near the historic centre of Košice, Slovakia. It superseded the older Orthodox Synagogue in Zvonárska Street, constructed in 1899 to the design of János Balogh.

The building

The synagogue was designed by the Budapest-educated architect Ľudovít Oelschläger. The facade uses both neo-classical and local traditional motifs; and example of the latter is the attic storey which is in a style often found in renaissance buildings of Eastern Slovakia. The interior which is largely constructed in concrete is in the modernist with a domed central hall and a women's gallery with a metal mechitzah. The central bimah faces an ark made of red marble. A school was built adjoining the synagogue and a mikveh (ritual bath) was planned but not constructed.

Holocaust memorial plate

Transports of Jews from Kosice to Nazi camps were carried out during World War II. A bronze Holocaust memorial plate was installed on the front of the synagogue in 1992. It informs that more than 12,000 Jews of Košice were taken to concentration camps in 1944. It does not mention that more than 2,000 Jews from Košice's surroundings were concentrated here and then also sent to the concentration camps. Only 400 of all transported Jews survived.

See also

• History of the Jews in Slovakia

Gallery

• 
  Orthodox synagogue
  in Košice (detail)
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  The Holocaust memorial plate
• 
  Orthodox synagogue
  in Košice (detail)

References

Notes

Sources

• Borský, Maroš (2007).Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia: A Memorial Landscape of a Lost Community. Bratislava: Jewish Heritage foundation. ISBN 9788096972005.

External links

• Synagogues of Kosice, Synagoga Slovaca website, accessed 15 August 2015.
• Ethel Flam (nee Frankfurter) Kosice survivor testimony - video, telling of the roundup in the synagogue yard.