Stockholm Synagogue

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The Stockholm Synagogue is located on the small street Wahrendorffsgatan close to the park Kungsträdgården on Norrmalm, Stockholm, and was built 1867-1870 according to designs made in 1862 by the architect Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander. The building has been called a "paraphrase over Oriental motifs" (Nordisk familjebok 26, col. 1470[1]). It was preceded by an earlier synagogue at Tyska brunn 15 in the Stockholm Old Town (now Själagårdsgatan 19), used 1790-1870, and services were held in an even earlier location at Köpmantorget in the Old town 1787-1790.

[edit] References

• (Swedish)Nordisk familjebok, s.v. "Synagoga"
• (Swedish)Nordisk familjebok, s.v. "Stockholm"

[edit] External link

• The Great Synagogue of Stockholm from Museum of the Jewish People