Bytom Synagogue

Bytom Synagogue
The former synagoge in c. 1904
Religion
AffiliationReform Judaism (former)
Ecclesiastical or organisational statusSynagogue (1869–1938)
StatusDestroyed
Location
LocationBeuthen, Province of Silesia (now Bytom)
CountryGermany (now Poland)
Bytom Synagogue is located in Germany
Bytom Synagogue
Location of the former synagogue in Germany,
as it was in 1937
Geographic coordinates50°20′52″N 18°55′30″E / 50.347759°N 18.924964°E / 50.347759; 18.924964
Architecture
TypeSynagogue architecture
StyleMoorish Revival
DestroyedNovember 1938
(during Kristallnacht

The Bytom Synagogue or Beuthen Synagogue was a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Beuthen, in the Prussian Province of Silesia. The town is now located in present-day Bytom, Poland, a border–town between Germany and the Second Polish Republic prior to German invasion of Poland in World War II. After the plebiscite of 1922, the border passed just east of Beuthen, so that neighboring Katowice was in Poland.

Built in 1869, the synagogue was destroyed by Nazis on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht.


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