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Bydgoszcz Synagogue

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “synagogue in bydgoszcz”. Today it says “former orthodox jewish congregation and synagogue”.
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It was built in 1884, based on design by Alfred Muttrey, in the place of the Old wooden Synagogue located at the Pod Blankami Street. Until its destruction in 1939, it was one of the largest structures in Bydgoszcz. It could accommodate 500 persons. The architect of the synagogue, Alfred Muttrey, submitted his design on 27 May 1882. The construction was initiated by Lewin Louis Aronsohn and sponsored financially by the entire Jewish community. Beginning of the complete deconstruction of the Synagogue on Nazi German orders, winter 1939 Synagoga w Bydgoszczy Virtual Shtetl .1

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Then

synagogue in bydgoszcz

Now

former orthodox jewish congregation and synagogue

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