Synagogue (Subotica)

1901–1902

Photograph of building exterior with rounded roofs — The synagogue in Subotica (today in Serbia) is the second-largest synagogue in Europe and a rare existing example of an art-nouveau synagogue. Its interior features elaborately glazed ceramics and art-nouveau paintings. According to the official history of the synagogue, Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab’s design was first submitted to a committee charged with commissioning the design for a new synagogue in Szeged (today in Hungary), but it was rejected as too radical. But their design found favor with the Jewish community in Subotica, and construction on the synagogue began there in 1900.

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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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