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Roughly the years after finishing the synagogue on Zvonarska street (Bell- founders' street), Jews wishing to adopt modern life preserving their faith, the so called neologists, built a double tower synagogue on Moyzesova street. They furnished it also with an organ causing agitation among the Orthodox Jews. Until they did not have their own trained organ player, Oldrich Hemerica, the choir-leader of the Cathedral of Kosice, a lover of the venerable Jewish music, played the organ there. This synagogue was demolished in the fifties. Now, there is a park in front of the House of Arts. |
| After the World War I, about 1920, Jews on the run from pogroms in Halic, built a synagogue on Tajovsky street. It was a super-orthodox sect in which most rabbis were Cadics-Saints or wise men. For instance, Rabbi Smuel Engel called upon by many worshippers from the whole Europan continent, was supposed to possess magical powers. At present there is the Institute of Technilogical Testing. |
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| In the years 1926 -1927, orthodox worshippers built a representative synagogue with 800 seats, with a school and a talmud-torah-school for rabbis on the Puskinova street. In spite of typical Jewish decoration elements, the designer, Ludovit Oelschläger, a Christian architect by the way, succeeded in printing his conception based on Cubism to this complex of buildings. It is a very successful, high quality architecture of that period. It belongs again to the Jewish community nevertheless it is not used in winter as there is no heating. The bronze memorial plate on the front informs that more than twelve thousand Jews of Kosice were taken to concentration camps. It does not mention that more than two thousand Jews from surroundings of Kosice were concentrated here and then also taken to concentration camps. | |
MAP of the historical City centre
/© Photo: Jarmila Švehlíková/
