Metadata: Zigeuner Synagogue
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 179
- Title:
- Zigeuner Synagogue
- Title (official language):
- Cikánova synagoga
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zigeuner Synagogue
- Date(s):
- 1699/1880
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.08 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a pinkas (ledger) and fragmentary files.
- Archival history:
- The records came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish communities and organisations that had been disbanded.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The synagogue was founded by Solomon Salkid-Cikán in 1613 at the latest. After a fire in 1689, it was rebuilt to a larger scale in 1701. Destroyed by fire in 1754, it was rebuilt again in 1755. It was demolished during the urban renewal of Prague's Jewish Town in 1906.
- Access points: locations:
- Prague
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: association files, books and financial files, synagogue plans.
- Finding aids:
- Hamáčková, V: Cikánova synagoga, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1989, 1 s., ev. č. 179.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
