The Synagogue From Fabric Timisoara

The Synagogue from Fabric

Is also called the New Synagogue or the Moorish Synagogue, due to the Moorish style in which it was built, with arabic-hispanic inspired elements, a style which reminds of the old community of the Spanish Jews, who have settled here. On the place of the current  edifice there was a smaller synagogue of the Jewish community from Fabric. The funds for the construction of the synagogue were collected by the municipality, by organising a public lottery, and the remainder came from donations. The work was entrusted to Josef Kremmer, an enterpriser from Timişoara, to be built according to the project of the Hungarian architect Lipót Baumhorn. The synagogue was inaugurated on the 3 September 1889. The organ was built by the famous artisan from Timişoara, Wegestein.