Vincennes Synagogue

The synagogue is a synagogue of Vincennes in Vincennes, a town in the Ile- de -France region in the department of Val -de- Marne, the south-east connects to Paris. It is located in the Rue Céline -Robert 30 The nearest metro station is Saint- Mandé Tourelle - 1 on the line

History

After the Franco-German War of 1870/ 71, the Jewish community had greatly increased in the suburbs of Paris Saint- Mandé and Vincennes by immigrants from Alsace -Lorraine. The late 19th century and early 20th century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe were added. 1901 decided the Consistory of Paris to set up a legally independent Jewish community in Saint- Mandé. 1903 acquired the consistory a plot for the construction of a synagogue. With the financial support of the patron Daniel IFFLA (1825-1907), who had, among other things, the synagogues of Tours, Lausanne and Tunis and Paris co-financed the synagogue of the Rue Buffault, the synagogue of Vincennes was officially opened on September 5, 1907. As an architect, Daniel IFFLA Victor Tondu had hired, who had also built the synagogue of Tours. The construction was designed by the architect of the Consistory, Lucien Hesse monitored.

Architecture

The synagogue can accommodate 160 people. It is located in a courtyard, in which the house of the rabbi and offices are housed. A porch on the gable a Star of David is carved, resulting in an anteroom. The facade of the synagogue is crowned by the Tablets of the Law. The triangular pediment decorated with blind arches and a stone rosette. Is the women's gallery, which is illuminated by three twin window over the entrance. Also downstairs there was in the rear of places for women and children, who were separated by a curtain from the places of men. At the eastern end of the ship is the Torah shrine, above the open three large windows in the east wall. As usual in the synagogues of the Consistory is the bimah in front of the ark.

Synagogue of the Sephardic rite

As in the 1960s, a large number of North African Jews from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, immigrated, who used the Sephardic rite, provided them with the traditional Ashkenazi community first a side building. In February 2005, a new Sephardic Synagogue ( Synagogue Beth Raphael ) was inaugurated, which was added to the Ashkenazi synagogue.