Beit Midrash in Włodawa
Włodawa, PL
The Beit Midrash on Włodawa is a 19th century Ashkenazi synagogue although its paintings date from the 1930s. This baroque brick building now serves as a museum.
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Włodawa, PL
The Beit Midrash on Włodawa is a 19th century Ashkenazi synagogue although its paintings date from the 1930s. This baroque brick building now serves as a museum.
Góra Kalwaria, PL
The Synagogue in Góra Kalwaria was built in 1905 instead of the former, wooden building, which had burnt down. It was the synagogue of the tzadiks from the Alter dynasty. During World War II, the synagogue was devastated by the Germans. After the war, the building was transformed into a shop and factory of soda-water. In 2000 the building was returned to the Jewish community in Warsaw. The only elements to have survived in the building's interior are cast-iron pillars from the gallery.
Athens, GR
The Beit Shalom Synagogue in Athens is a Sephardi synagogue built in the 1930s. This Neo-Classical brick building still serves as a synagogue.
Kuzguncuk/ Istanbul, TR
The Beit Yaakov (Etz Haim) Synagogue in Istanbul is a Sephardi synagogue completed in 1878, rebuilt in 1983. This brick building still serves as a synagogue.
Steinkjer, NO
Beitstad church (formerly Solberg church) is a long church from 1869. When the church was inaugurated, she was referred to as Solberg's new church. In 1913, the parish changed its name from Solberg to Beitstad.
Beja, PT
Beja Cathedral was built in 1590 on the site of an earlier church, also dedicated to St James the Great. The church, in Mannerist style, was built at the request of Archbishop Teotonio de Bragança and designed by the architect Jorge Rodriguez. The church was transformed into a cathedral by decree of the Congregation of the Sacred Consistory on 14th November 1925. On 4 June 1937, the church was transformed into a cathedral.
Tirana, AL
Also named as Baitul Avval Mosque, it is an Ahmadiyati Mosque in the captital. It is one of the largest mosques in the country that can hold up to 2500 worshippers. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established since 1934 in Albania and the mosque was financed primarily form the community.
Stavanger, NO
Bekkefaret church in Stavanger is a brick church from 1977. The architects of this church are Amund Riseng & Jan Stensrud.
Oslo, NO
Bekkelaget Church is a long brick church designed by architect Harald Bødtker, consecrated in 1923. It is a working church with parish halls on the long west wall of the nave. One hall is designed as a transept at the transition to the choir, the other in an open arcade between this transept and the tower. The tower is located on the side of the north gable of the church.
Austevoll, NO
Bekkjarvik church is a wooden church built in 1895. The architect of the church was J.Sandnæs.
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