Wooden Synagogues of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Paperback)


High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wooden synagogues are an original style of Synagogue architecture that developed in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. The wooden synagogue was "an original architectural genre" that drew on several models, including Poland's wooden building traditions and central plan, masonry synagogues in which four massive masonry pillars that define the Bimah rise to support the roof vaulting. Central pillars support the vaulting of only a handful of wooden synagogues. Instead, in wooden synagogues the vaulting and domes are suspended by elaborate roof trusses. Common features shared by wooden synagogues include the independence of the pitched roof from the design of the interior domed ceiling. The outside of a wooden synagogue gave no hint of the domes and multiple, Baroque vaults that would be found within. The exteriors were decidedly plain, giving no hint of the riot of carving, painting, domes, balconies and vaulting inside.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wooden synagogues are an original style of Synagogue architecture that developed in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. The wooden synagogue was "an original architectural genre" that drew on several models, including Poland's wooden building traditions and central plan, masonry synagogues in which four massive masonry pillars that define the Bimah rise to support the roof vaulting. Central pillars support the vaulting of only a handful of wooden synagogues. Instead, in wooden synagogues the vaulting and domes are suspended by elaborate roof trusses. Common features shared by wooden synagogues include the independence of the pitched roof from the design of the interior domed ceiling. The outside of a wooden synagogue gave no hint of the domes and multiple, Baroque vaults that would be found within. The exteriors were decidedly plain, giving no hint of the riot of carving, painting, domes, balconies and vaulting inside.

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Imprint

Alphascript Publishing

Country of origin

Germany

Release date

2011

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First published

2011

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Dimensions

152 x 229 x 11mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

184

ISBN-13

978-6134210737

Barcode

9786134210737

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LSN

6134210730



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