Saturday 5 April 2008

SYNAGOQUE inTYKOCIN


The synagoque in Tykocin, a village in the province of Bialystok, is an early Baroque masonry synagoque which was build in 1624 and restored between 1974 and 1978. The synagoque is now used as a museum. Tykocin is located 45 minutes from Bialystok.

Boguslaw

3 comments:

Sant Boi Student said...

Is there a Jewish community in Bialystok nowdays?
Here in Girona there is an old Jewish suburb, but Jewish were official expelled in XVI century.
Jewish suburb are called CALL

ckustudent said...

Yes, we have very few Jewish community.

Ana said...

This is a beautiful building. I would like visiting it.