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New Synagogue (Darmstadt)
Synagogue and museum in Darmstadt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The New Synagogue (German: Neue Synagoge) is a Reform[citation needed] Jewish congregation, synagogue, community centre, and Jewish museum (German: Jüdische Gemeinde), located in Darmstadt, in the state of Hessen, Germany.[6]
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History
Inaugurated on in 1988, the synagogue was built as part of a citizens’ initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht.[7] Known also as the ‘Holocaust Memorial Synagogue’, the architectural complex was designed to fulfil the needs of the city's Jewish population, who had been without a place of worship since the 1938 pogrom when Darmstadt's three synagogues were destroyed.[8] The religious and cultural complex is located on the site of the city's former Gestapo headquarters.[9]
The cultural complex is the site of the local museum of Jewish history and culture, Museum der Jüdischen Gemeinde Darmstadt.
The synagogue is egalitarian and has a number of members who are LGBTQ Jews, converts, or who are in interfaith marriages. Under the leadership of Rabbi Gesa Ederberg, the synagogue's mechitza was removed.[10]
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Architecture
The building was designed by Alfred Jacoby in the Postmodernist style, and features stained glass windows designed by British architectural artist Brian Clarke.[1]
The first "newly constructed synagogue in the postwar period to recall the traditional form of a central, domed building", the design marked the start of Jacoby's development of a distinct modern Jewish religious architectural vernacular.[11]
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Gallery
The north wall of the New Synagogue, with stained glass by Brian Clarke
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