Templul Coral Explained

Building Name:Templul Coral
Location:Bucharest, Romania
Functional Status:Active
Architecture Type:Synagogue
Architecture Style:Neo-Mudejar
Groundbreaking:1864
Year Completed:1866
Consecration Year:1866

The Choral Temple (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Templul Coral) is a synagogue located in Bucharest, Romania. Designed by Enderle and Freiwald and built between 1864 and 1866, it is a very close copy of Vienna's Leopoldstadt-Tempelgasse Great Synagogue, which had been built in 1855–1858. The synagogue was devastated by the far-right Legionaries in January 1941, but was then restored after World War II, in 1945. The main hall was recently refurbished, and re-opened in 2015. The synagogue is still hosts daily religious services in the small hall, being one of the few active synagogues in the city and in Romania.

Bibliography

Book: Krinsky, Carol Herselle . Carol Herselle Krinsky . 1996. Synagogues in Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning . . 0486290786.

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