The synagogue in the Cetate district is a Jewish place of worship built between 1863-1865 according to the plans of the architect Karl Schumann from Vienna.
The synagogue in the Cetate neighbourhood (Mărășești Street no. 6) is a Jewish place of worship built between 1863-1865 according to the plans of the architect Karl Schumann from Vienna. Made in an eclectic style, with Moorish elements, the synagogue has 744 seats (424 for men and 320 for women, in the gallery). The synagogue was inaugurated on September 19, 1865, was reopened in 1872 by King Ferenc József and served the Jewish community of neologism.
After the mass emigration of the Jews, the synagogue was closed, and the Jewish Community of Timișoara ceded in 2001 the Synagogue from the Cetate neighbourhood to the Philharmonic Society for a period of 50 years.
It was reopened in September 2005, during a concert organised by the Timișoara Philharmonic Society. Currently, the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania is administering the synagogue again, and in May 2022 it was reopened to the public following extensive restoration work.
Bibliografie: Mihai Opriș, Mihai Botescu, Arhitectura istorică din Timișoara, Editura Tempus, Timișoara, 2014
Getta Neumann, Pe urmele Timișoarei evreiești. Mai mult decât un ghid, Editura Brumar, Timișoara, 2019
Bibliography:
- Mihai Opriș, Mihai Botescu, Arhitectura istorică din Timișoara, Editura Tempus, Timișoara, 2014
- Getta Neumann, Pe urmele Timișoarei evreiești. Mai mult decât un ghid, Editura Brumar, Timișoara, 2019
Citadel Synagogue
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Robert Șerban
I go inside the synagogue
for inspiration
I look at the ceiling the walls the organ
I take some photos
I eavesdrop on two men talking
I glance at what a woman is restoring
I’m thinking of sitting in a chair
but I don’t
no one else is sitting
I’m the only visitor
everyone else has work to do here
somehow
I also came here with a purpose
as if poetry had one
June 2022
“Rabbi Abraham Mayer also lived in two rooms on the second floor. Johann Heteri, the gravedigger, the same - two rooms, and in another two rooms, the Jewish chorister Samuel Ledidy. In the ‘big room next to the staircase’ lived the Israeli merchant Eisenstädter. And let’s not forget Mr. Heinrich Nytschky, ‘housekeeper and employed accountant’.
As is all too often the case, Peter Solderer, municipal judge and, for almost twenty years, mayor of the city - the very person to whom we owe the ‘Three Crowns’ house, wasn’t meant to live in it; nor did he even get to see it finished.” (Livius Ciocârlie, A Provincial BurgtheaterA Provincial Burgtheater, Editura Cartea Românească, 1984, p. 35-36)
Când un lipovean, mehedințean, sucevean se va îndrepta și mai mult spre Vest, va auzi că Timișoara este Capitala Europeană a Culturii în 2023.
Era vara 2022, când eu terminasem un episod nou din Crash Landing on You și cu BlackPink în urechi, prea tare, știu, m-am rătăcit căutând un mic rai coreean, numit așa simplu, K-mart. Ce știam este că se află ‘’în centru’’.
Ce uitasem e că Timișoara are aproximativ 14 000 clădiri istorice și un impresionant număr de obiective care îți fură uneori la propriu ochii. Unde mai pui că vedeam la fiecare colț în interiorul zidurilor cetății încă un eveniment care se desfășura în aer liber și că era cu acces liber. Sinagoga îsi redeschidea porțile? Era proaspăt renovată? Am intrat și mi-am reamintit cât de frumoase sunt mozaicurile, iar când am privit tavanul am realizat că blue is the warmest colour.
Poate îți faci timp și vei merge!
Marc Andreea Diana
