Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue

The synagogue of the Rue Pavée or synagogue Agoudas Hakehilot is an Orthodox synagogue, which does not belong to the Consistoire de Paris. It is located 10, rue Pavée in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Marais district. The nearest metro station is Saint -Paul at line 1 The synagogue was built in 1913 by the Art Nouveau architect Hector Guimard and belongs since 1989 to the French Monuments historiques ( cultural monument ).

History

1911 joined nine Jewish communities of Russian and Polish immigrants, each of whom had his own oratory, under President Joseph Landau to the Association Agoudas Hakehilot ( אֲגֻדָּת - הַקְּהִלּוֹת ) together to jointly build a synagogue. They acquired in the Rue Pavée a parcel that was only 30 feet deep and almost 12 feet wide, but was in the middle in the Marais district, where many Jewish immigrants had settled from Eastern Europe in the 19th century. With the construction of the synagogue, the famous architect Hector Guimard was commissioned, who had, in the upmarket west of Paris, already built several houses in the 16th arrondissement and designed the Art Nouveau entrances to the Paris Métro. He was married since 1909 with Adeline Oppenheim, who came from a New York Jewish family. In April 1913, the foundation stone was laid and as early as October of the same year, the synagogue was used, although the official opening was held in June 1914.

Architecture

The building is set back slightly from the street front. The facade is tripartite and wavy and with twin lancet windows, mark the three floors, broken. Narrow pilasters extend over the entire façade and terminate in stylized plant motifs. Under the rounded eaves the tablets are attached. The Star of David ( Magen David ) above the entrance was only mounted when the renovation after the Second World War. Behind the tripartite portal to a vestibule joins, leading from the lateral staircases to the women's galleries. The narrow interior is unusually high and is divided into two floors with lateral galleries. It is lit by a skylight and a large window on the front wall above the ark.

Equipment

In the center of the vessel, the bimah, which is surrounded by four Art Nouveau candelabra is. With the exception of the eight-branched candelabrum ( Chanukah candelabra ) in the middle, all the furnishings and decor, the stucco, the lattice of the galleries and the lamps by Hector Guimard designed and have the typical for the Art Nouveau stylized floral motifs. We find the same line as the shaft of the facade on the benches.