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