The Synagogue of Mondovì is located in Via Vico at number 65, and was built in the second half of the 18th century. After the confinement of the Jews decreed in the first decades of the eighteenth century by Vittorio Amedeo II, it should not have had architectural elements visible from the outside. It was therefore set up by renovating an apartment on the second and top floors.
It consists of four different rooms: the celebration room, the classroom, the veranda terrace and the women's gallery. Small and richly furnished, it still retains the original Baroque furnishings in gilded and lacquered wood. The frames, panels and twisted columns, carved by hand, are valuable. The Holy Ark, containing the tablets of the law, and the Menorah (candlestick with seven arms), was placed in the wall facing Jerusalem. The fourteen scrolls of the Holy Scriptures and the five books of the Torah, written in Hebrew characters, were kept. The chandeliers are made of crystal. The octagonal pulpit (Bimah), carved in gilded wood, is also pleasant to see. Some benches are arranged along the walls. The six painted fake windows bearing passages from the Bible and the fake floral entablature of the ceiling are valuable.
Mondovi Synagogue
Address: Via Vico, 65, 12084
Phone: 0174 559.305
Site:
http://www.comune.mondovi.cn.it/vivere-la-citta/turismo/conoscere-mondovi/piazza/sinagoga/Location inserted by
Tesori del Ghetto