Restoration work has been completed on a richly decorated private Jewish prayer room in Bedzin, in southern Poland. The so-called Mizrachi synagogue, believed to date from the mid-1920s, is located in a building at ul. Potocki 3 in the former Jewish quarter. It was used by the members of the Mizrachi religious Zionist organization. The founder was probably the owner of the entire building, a man named Wiener, who was active in the movement.
The prayer room will be opened to the public in the spring.
The Bedzin town web site has a slide show of pictures showing the completed work -- you can view it HERE
There are also a lot of pictures on Wiki commons of the "before" condition
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| Photo (c) Leszek Maszczyk |
The photographer Jono David has also posted four dozen pictures documenting the poor state of the synagogue when renovation began and then the painstaking process of restoration. You can see them HERE
It is the second private prayer house in Bedzin to be restored recently. The other is under the care of a private organization called Cukierman's Gate. I have posted about them in the past HERE.
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