The Jewish fast day of Tisha B’av, or the Ninth of Av, was marked this week (August 4-5). It commemorates and mourns the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies that befell the Jewish people.
In honor of the occasion, we post here a few images from synagogues (or ruined synagogues) in Poland, Romania and Ukraine of wall paintings showing people praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the only remnant of the Second Temple, destroyed by the Romans in August 70 CE, and the holiest site in Judaism.
Click here to see more about murals depicting the Holy Land, in our JHE post from January 5, 2014
2 comments on “Tisha B’av: Mourning and Remembering the Temple, in synagogue art”
מה שקורה ברימנוב, ההזנחה הנוראית, , יש לזה סיבה 1 מישהו שטוען שהוא הבעלים של בית הכנסת, מוזר כי בית כנסת זה ציבורי???
Look what happned to the paintings in Rymanow Sinaogue…..