List Of Synagogues In Slovakia
This list of synagogues in Slovakia contains active, otherwise used and destroyed synagogues in Slovakia. The list of Slovakian synagogues is not necessarily complete, as only a negligible number of sources testify to the existence of some synagogues. In all cases the year of the completion of the building is given. Italics indicate an approximate date. Bratislavský kraj Trnavský kraj Trenčiansky kraj Nitriansky kraj Žilinský kraj Banskobystrický kraj Prešovský kraj Košický kraj References Sources Old postcards and pictures of synagogues in Slovakia– judaica.cz ''Maroš Borský: Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia Towards Creating a Memorial Landscape of Lost Community''Dissertation: Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg 2005 including PDF-file with pictures, (last accessed 30. September 2020) * http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2756 * http://judaica.cz/?page_id=8827 * http://judaica.cz/?page_id=8830 * http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2759 * ht ...
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Pezinok
Pezinok (; hu, Bazin; german: Bösing; lat, Bazinium) is a town in southwestern Slovakia. It is roughly northeast of Bratislava and, as of December 2018, had a population of 23,002. Pezinok lies near the Little Carpathians and thrives mainly on viticulture and agriculture, as well as on brick-making and ceramic(s) production. History From the second half of the 10th century until 1918, it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. Pezinok, or at least its surroundings, was for the first time mentioned in 1208 under name "''terra Bozin''". During the next few centuries, the town changed from a mining settlement to a vineyard town. It gained the status of a free royal town on 14 June 1647. Pezinok had its most glorious era of wealth and prosperity in the 17th and 18th centuries when it was also one of the richest towns in the Kingdom of Hungary. Its wealth was based on the production of quality wines. In the 19th century, the town slowly began to industrialize: the first sulphuric aci ...
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Svätý Jur Synagogue
The Synagogue in Svätý Jur, a small town in Slovakia, north-east of the capital Bratislava, was built around 1790. The building is in private ownership and is in a very bad condition. History Evidence of a Jewish community in Svätý Jur dates from before 1529, when the Jews were expelled from the town. Settlement of individual Jewish families began again in the 17th century. The synagogue dates from the late 18th century and resembles a late Baroque rural mansion. In 1876 the building underwent some reconstruction. It stands in the former Jewish courtyard and was surrounded by other Jewish institutions. These were demolished by the current owner, who acquired the property after World War II. Today it is used for storage and is dilapidated. Architecture On the western side stands a doorway projection with vestibule and women's gallery above. Access to the gallery was through a covered staircase, attached next to it. The sanctuary (the men's prayer room) on the eastern s ...
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Svätý Jur
Svätý Jur (; german: Sankt Georgen; he, Yergen; hu, Szentgyörgy; formerly ''Jur pri Bratislave'') is a small historical town northeast of Bratislava, located in the Bratislava Region. The city is situated on the slopes of Little Carpathians mountains and surrounded by typical terraced vineyards with more than 700 years of winemaking tradition. In 1990, the intact city center was declared a protected city reservation. Cadastrially, Svätý Jur includes also the natural reserve Šúr, established in 1952 to protect one of the last and largest remnants of a tall-stem swamp alder forest in Central Europe. Today, Svätý Jur has a population of over 5 thousand citizens. The town is well connected with a major road between Pezinok and Bratislava passing through and the Svätý Jur railway station situated on the main Košice - Bratislava railway line. The city is bordered by the Little Carpathian mountains to the west, Bratislava to the south, natural reserve Šúr to the east and ...
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Stupava Synagogue
Stupava Synagogue, built in 1803, is located in Stupava, Malacky District, in Slovakia. Architecture The rectangular building is made of massive walls with simple Baroque windows and has a saddleback roof. An external staircase, attached diagonally to the western facade, gives access to the women's gallery. Several oval ventilation openings in the gable are typical for the local architecture of the region. The interior consists of the main prayer hall with a vestibule and study-room to the west. Above these is the women's prayer room. The prayer hall is of the nine-field (''nine-bay'') type, In these halls the vaulting rests on four tall pillars and on corresponding wall pilasters. The columns and the pilasters are situated in equal spacing and dividing the roof-area into nine equal fields. In these synagogues the bimah is a free-standing podium or a bower situated within the central field between the pillars. The Stupava synagogue and the Bardejov Old Synagogue Bardejov ...
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Stupava, Malacky District
Stupava (german: Stampfen; hu, Stomfa) is a town in western Slovakia. It is situated in the Malacky District, Bratislava Region. Etymology The name is derived from Proto-Slavic ''stǫpa'' ( sk, stupa) - a wooden bowl carved from a tree trunk, but also the name of various crushing and pressing tools. Geography The town is located in the Záhorie lowland, under the Little Carpathians, around north of Bratislava at an altitude of 182 metres. It has 15, 095 inhabitants as of 2021 and has a land area of . Apart from the core part of the city, Mást (german: Maaßt, hu, Mászt), located just south of the core part of the city, is another part of Stupava. It has been initially a separate village with Croats in Slovakia, ethnic Croatian majority, which was formally annexed by Stupava in 1953. History However, traces of habitation go back to the Bronze Age, and the first known inhabitants were the Celts. The Romans built a military station as a part of the near Limes Romanus on the Dan ...
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Synagogue In Senec (Szenc)
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worship. Synagogues have a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels), where Jews attend religious Services or special ceremonies (including Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs or Bat Mitzvahs, Confirmations, choir performances, or even children's plays), have rooms for study, social hall(s), administrative and charitable offices, classrooms for religious school and Hebrew school, sometimes Jewish preschools, and often have many places to sit and congregate; display commemorative, historic, or modern artwork throughout; and sometimes have items of some Jewish historical significance or history about the Synagogue itself, on display. Synagogues are consecrated spaces used for the purpose of Jewish prayer, study, assembly, a ...
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Senec Synagogue
Senec may refer to: Places * Senec District, Bratislava Region, western Slovakia ** Senec, Slovakia, capital of Senec District * Senec (Rakovník District), a village in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic * Zruč-Senec, a village in Plzeň Region, Czech Republic Sports * FC Senec, a football club based in Senec, Slovakia, active 1994–2008 * ŠK Senec, a football club based in Senec, Slovakia, active 1994–2016 * MŠK Senec, a football club based in Senec, Slovakia, active 2014–present Other uses * Senec, a German solar storage manufacturer; subsidiary of EnBW See also * Seneca (other) Seneca may refer to: People and language * Seneca (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname * Seneca people, one of the six Iroquois tribes of North America ** Seneca language, the language of the Seneca people Places Extrat ...

Senec, Slovakia
Senec ( hu, Szenc, ) is a town in the Bratislava Region of south-western Slovakia. The town is the administrative seat of the Senec District and its largest municipality. In 2022 it had a population of over 20,000. The town is a summer tourism and recreation center well known for its summer resort ''Sunny Lakes'' () and its proximity to Bratislava, the capital and largest city of Slovakia. Etymology The town's contemporary name comes from a Slavic appellative ''seno'', meaning hay, as the inhabitants dealt with cattle trade (see also Senica, Senné, Veľký Krtíš District or Senné, Michalovce District). Throughout its history the town name's form changed multiple times, in 1252 being written as ''Zemch'', in 1451 as ''Sencz''. In German, the name ''Wartberg'' was historically used. The name is supposedly derived from a fortified hill upon which the Church of Saint Nicholaus stands to this day. History In the 9th century, the territory of Senec became part of the Grea ...
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Rohožník Synagóga
Rohožník may refer to: * Rohožník, Humenné District, Slovakia * Rohožník, Malacky District Rohožník (german: Rohrbach; hu, Nádasfő) is a village in Malacky District in the Bratislava Region of western Slovakia close to the town of Malacky Malacky ( German: ''Malatzka'', Hungarian: ''Malacka'') is a town and municipality in west ...