Grande synagogue de Versailles
10 rue Albert-Joly 78000 Versailles
Oral tradition wants that the king Louis XVI having met a funeral cortege going(surrendering) on foot to bury a dead Jew in Paris was moved and granted(tuned) a location reserved for the Israelites behind the cemetery Notre-Dame. Aldrophe builds the synagogue of Versailles in a time(period) when emerges a new style for this type(chap) of building(ship) and chooses a model inspired by the Church to assure(insure) an identity in the building. From the XVIIIth century, they find Jews native to Alsace, to Germany and to Comtat venaissin in the royal city. The current synagogue was built in 1886, thanks to the generosity of Cecil Furtado-Heine, that is three years after the constitution of the modern community. This one is compound(made up) of Ashkenazis and Sephardis, but services(offices) are celebrated according to rite Séfardi. The admiral Louis Kahn, who governed the destinies of the central consistory from 1963 till 1967, was originally from Versailles. The doctor Paul Weil, founder of the departmental Centre of haematology and of blood blood transfusion, was also a member of this community. There is a work of Gérard Nahon and Dominique Jarasse, title "The Synagogue of Versailles" and published in 2006 on the occasion of the celebration of 120 years of the synagogue.
Tags
Édifice religieux, Monument historique
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