Metadata: Fonds regarding the Ostend synagogue
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Musée Juif de Belgique
- Postal address:
- Miniemenstraat 21 / Rue des Minimes 21, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 512 19 63
- Web address:
- http://www.new.mjb-jmb.org
- Email:
- info@mjb-jmb.org
- Reference number:
- JM-Brussels-Fonds Synagogue d’Ostende
- Title:
- Fonds regarding the Ostend synagogue
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Synagogue d’Ostende
- Creator/accumulator:
- Synagogue of Ostend
- Date(s):
- 1945/1977
- Extent:
- 5 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds primarily contains bookkeeping records, invoices, correspondence and files regarding war damage to the synagogue sustained during the Second World War.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- King Leopold II provided a wing of a former royal palace to accommodate a synagogue in the seaside town of Ostend. In December 1910 the Jewish community of Ostend obtained permission to build a genuine synagogue. The synagogue was designed by architect Joseph De Lange, and inaugurated in August 1911. It is located on Filip van Maastrichtplein and is still in use today. (La Communauté israélite d’Ostende http://www.jewishcom.be/wordpress/2009/03/01/la-communaute-israelite-d%E2%80%99ostende-de-israelitische-gemeenschap-van-oostende/)
- Access points: locations:
- Ostend
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a transfer list (from 2007).
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
