The Synagogues of Greece by Elias Messinas

Salonika

Diagrammatic floor plan of the office building on Vassileos Irakliou Street in Salonika. Yad Lezikaron Synagogue is located in this building. Based on a floor plan provided by the Jewish Community of Salonika, and the survey by architect Elias Messinas in April and June 1995.(Elias V. Messinas Architect)

Interior elevation of Yad Lezikaron Synagogue in Salonika looking east towards the heikhal, which belonged to Ohel Yossef (Kehila Sarfati) Synagogue, moved to Ashkenazi (Burla) Synagogue when the previous synagogue was demolished, and finally to Yad Lezikaron when Ashkenazi Synagogue was demolished. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

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Main floor plan of Lezikaron Synagogue in Salonika. Based on the survey by architect Elias Messinas in April and June 1995. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

Interior elevation of Yad Lezikaron Synagogue in Salonika looking south. The heikhal is to the left, the bimah in the center and the ezrat nashim balcony to the right above the entrance. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

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The Synagogues of Greece by Elias Messinas

Published on Aug 17, 2017

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THE SYNAGOGUES OF GREECE: A STUDY OF SYNAGOGUES IN MACEDONIA AND THRACE is the result of nearly two decades of research and in-situ work by the author. The manuscript was based on the author’s Ph.D. dissertation at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and a post-doctoral Ally Kaufmann Fellowship research at the Technion Institute of Technology, Israel. Based on unpublished archival sources, and detailed architectural surveys and drawings, this book traces the history of the synagogues, the Jewish quarters and Jewish communities in Greece, from antiquity, through Byzantine and Ottoman times, contemporary history and the Holocaust, when 87% of Greek Jewry was annihilated. The author Elias Messinas is an architect, graduate of the Yale School of Architecture based in Israel and Greece.