Templul Coral

Coordinates: 44°25′52″N 26°06′24″E / 44.43106°N 26.10670°E / 44.43106; 26.10670
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Templul Coral
Religion
Year consecrated1866
StatusActive
Location
LocationBucharest, Romania
Geographic coordinates44°25′52″N 26°06′24″E / 44.43106°N 26.10670°E / 44.43106; 26.10670
Architecture
TypeSynagogue
StyleNeo-Mudejar
Groundbreaking1864
Completed1866

The Choral Temple (Romanian: Templul Coral) is a synagogue located in Bucharest, Romania. Designed by Enderle and Freiwald and built between 1864 and 1866, it is a very close copy of Vienna's Leopoldstadt-Tempelgasse Great Synagogue, which had been built in 1855–1858. The synagogue was devastated by the far-right Legionaries in January 1941, but was then restored after World War II, in 1945. The main hall was recently refurbished, and re-opened in 2015. The synagogue is still hosts daily religious services in the small hall, being one of the few active synagogues in the city and in Romania.

Bibliography[edit]

Krinsky, Carol Herselle (1996). Synagogues in Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning. Courier Corporation. ISBN 0486290786.

See also[edit]

Templul Coral in 2016