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The Pińczów Synagogue, also known as the Old Synagogue in Pińczów, is an historic former
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building, located in
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. The synagogue was completed in 1609 in the
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History

It is one of the oldest synagogues in Poland, built between 1594 and 1609. It was damaged during
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, which led to its disuse. Restoration on the building began in the 1970s, led by the Pińczów Regional Museum, with most of the repairs completed by 1998.


See also

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History of the Jews in Poland The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jews, Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the long pe ...
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List of active synagogues in Poland Before the Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939, almost every Polish town had a synagogue or a Jewish house of prayer of some kind. The 1939 statistics recorded the total of 1,415 Jewish communities in the country just before the outbreak of ...


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