Stockholm Synagogue

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Stockholm Synagogue
Basic information
Location	Wahrendorffsgatan 3 Stockholm, Sweden
Religious affiliation	Non-Orthodox Judaism
District	Norrmalm
Ecclesiastical status	Active Synagogue
Website	The Great Synagogue
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander
Year completed	1870
Specifications
Capacity	900

The Stockholm Synagogue (Swedish: Stockholms Synagoga, Hebrew: בית הכנסת הגדול של שטוקהולם‎) also called the Great Synagogue of Stockholm, 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]), and it is listed in the Swedish registry of national historical buildings. It was preceded by an earlier synagogue at Tyska Brunnsplan in the Stockholm Old Town (now 19, Själagårdsgatan), used 1790-1870, and services were held in an even earlier location on Köpmanbrinken near Köpmantorget in the Old town 1787-1790.

The Judiska biblioteket, the Jewish Community Library, under the guidance of Lars Raij, is located beneath the Stockholm Synagogue. Its multilingual collection consists of books in Swedish, German, English, French, Hebrew, and other languages. It includes the library of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis (1869-1951), who was Chief Rabbi of Sweden from 1914 to 1951. Occasional exhibits at the Jewish Community Library include the scheduled October 2007 exhibit of the Friedrich Kellner WWII diary which chronicles the Holocaust of European Jewry.

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

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