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New Synagogue") is the synagogue , community centre, and museum of the Jewish community ( ) in Darmstadt. Inaugurated on in 1988, the synagogue was built as part of a citizens’ initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht Known also as the ‘Holocaust Memorial Synagogue’, the architectural complex was designed to fulfil the needs of the city's Jewish population, who had been without a place of worship since the 1938 pogrom when Darmstadt's three synagogues were destroyed. Built according to plans by Alfred Jacoby , with a significant programme of stained glass windows designed by British architectural artist Brian Clarke . The religious and cultural complex is located on the site of the city's former Gestapo headquarters.1 Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational . In Lässig, Simone; Rürup, Miriam (eds.). Lexikon: Der Jüdischer Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum (in German) (First ed.).
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Synagogue and museum in Darmstadt The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") is the synagogue , community centre, and museum of the Jewish community ( ) in Darmstadt. Constructed in 1988 for the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht , the complex was designed to fulfil the needs of the city's Jewish population, who had been without a place of worship since the 1938 pogrom when Darmstadt's three synagogues were destroyed. Built according to plans by Alfred Jacoby , with stained glass and a Torah ark by British architectural artist Brian Clarke , the complex, also known as the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue, is located on the site of the city's former Gestapo headquarters. The first "newly constructed synagogue in the postwar period to recall the traditional form of a central, domed building", the design marked the start of Jacoby's development of a distinct modern Jewish religious architectural vernacular. Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational . Lexikon: Der Jüdischer Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum (in German) (First ed.).
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Synagogue and museum in Darmstadt The New Synagogue ( German : Neue Synagoge ) is a Reform Jewish congregation, synagogue , community centre, and Jewish museum ( German : Jüdische Gemeinde ), located in Darmstadt , in the state of Hessen , Germany .Historic synagogues of Europe .Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . n.d . Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational . In Lässig, Simone; Rürup, Miriam (eds.). Lexikon: Der Jüdischer Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum (in German) (First ed.).
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