Synagogue Große Schiffgasse Vienna

Association Synagogue Since 1897 maintained by the association "Adass Yisroel" (Community of Israel), center of Orthodoxy in Vienna. Construction period: 1858(?) - 1864, inauguration on 16.9.1864, 1st rabbi: Salomon Spitzer Architect: unknown Style and appearance: single-nave, almost square domed building with stylistic borrowings from Byzantine architecture Capacity: 500 male and 250 female seats. Chairman: KmR. Siegmund Bondi, Rab.: Sigmund Fürst (1932) Nov. 1938 set on fire and completely destroyed. Sources: Jewish Yearbook for Austria 1932, Krakow Calendar 1937, Annual Report of the Jewish Community 1936, David 2/2003, Ruth Burstyn, "Die Schiffschul" in "Judentum in Österreich", Berger Collection, Hist. Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna 1987. Last use: No information