Úvaly, synagoga

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On the site of the synagogue now stands dwelling house. Jewish religious community in Úvaly rebuilt from the legacy of the toll collector James Gersonav 1850, the former toll station on the corner of May 5 and Škvorecký the synagogue and Jewish school. Rabbi worked here Benjamin Synek (r. 1854), and Herman Isaac Roubíček Brod. A synagogue was connected shingled house in which lived the singer. The cantor chants and prayers directed at the Torah reading in the absence of the rabbi. In 1867 he Antonin Rosenbaum modify the facade of the synagogue in pseudo-Gothic style. Jewish school served to early twenties of the 20th century, after the children, brought up in Czech, Úvalská attended elementary school like other children. In the twenties of the 20th century, the number of believers has fallen to 16, for the Torah reading should be at least nine men left the synagogue money, so it was demolished in 1925. Synagogue stood on four plots, two of them (land plot no.