Wikipedia's first sentence called it “reform jewish synagogue in łódź”. Today it says “former reform jewish congregation and synagogue”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Reform Jewish synagogue in Łódź, Poland”. It now reads “Destroyed Reform Jewish synagogue in Łódź, Poland”.
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Reform Jewish synagogue in Łódź, Poland For similarly named synagogues, see Great Synagogue . The Great Synagogue of Łódź ( Polish : Wielka Synagoga w Łodzi ) was a synagogue in Łódź , Poland , which was built in 1881.1It was designed by Adolf Wolff and paid mostly by local industrialists, such as Izrael Poznański , Joachim Silberstein and Karol Scheibler . It served the reformed congregation and was usually referred to as The Temple. Prominent Łódż builder and architect Johann Steck (or, Jan Sztek, 1851–1914) carried out construction of the Great Synagogue in 1881–1887, at the corner of ul. The synagogue was burned to the ground by the Germans on the night of November 14, 1939, along with its Torah scrolls and interior fixtures. It was dismantled in 1940. Today the site is used as a parking lot.2
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The Great Synagogue of Łódź ( Polish : Wielka Synagoga w Łodzi ) was a Reform Jewish synagogue in Łódź , Poland , built in 1881 . It was designed by Adolf Wolff and paid mostly by local industrialists, such as Izrael Poznański , Joachim Silberstein and Karol Scheibler . It was an exact replica of the Königsberg Temple . It served the reformed congregation and was usually referred to as The Temple. The synagogue was completely burned to the ground by the Nazis on the night of November 14, 1939, along with its Torah scrolls and interior fixtures. It was dismantled in 1940 . Today, the site is used as a parking lot.
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The Great Synagogue of Łódź ( Polish : Wielka Synagoga w Łodzi ) was a synagogue in Łódź , Poland , built in 1881. It was designed by Adolf Wolff and paid mostly by local industrialists, such as Izrael Poznański , Joachim Silberstein and Karol Scheibler . It served the reformed congregation and was usually referred to as The Temple. The synagogue was completely burned to the ground by the Nazis on the night of November 14, 1939, along with its Torah scrolls and interior fixtures. It was dismantled in 1940. Today, the site is used as a parking lot.
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The Great Synagogue of Łódź ( Polish : Wielka Synagoga w Łodzi ) was a synagogue in Łódź , Poland , which was built in 1881. It was designed by Adolf Wolff and paid mostly by local industrialists, such as Izrael Poznański , Joachim Silberstein and Karol Scheibler . It served the reformed congregation and was usually referred to as The Temple. The synagogue was burned to the ground by the Germans on the night of November 14, 1939, along with its Torah scrolls and interior fixtures. It was dismantled in 1940. Today the site is used as a parking lot.
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Destroyed Reform Jewish synagogue in Łódź, Poland For similarly named synagogues, see Great Synagogue . The Great Synagogue of Łódź ( Polish : Wielka Synagoga w Łodzi ) was a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue , located in Łódź , in the Łódź Voivodeship of Poland .Designed by Adolf Wolff in the Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1887, the synagogue served as a house of prayer until World War II when it was destroyed by Nazis on November 14, 1939.
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reform jewish synagogue in łódź
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former reform jewish congregation and synagogue
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