GC2YZCR The Nożyk Synagogue (Traditional Cache) in Mazowieckie, Poland created by 赏月者 (adopted from wantsky)

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Hidden : 6/26/2011

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Synagoga im. Zalmana i Rywki Malzonków Nozyków w Warszawie to jedyna czynna przedwojenna synagoga w Warszawie, która przetrwala II wojne swiatowa, znajdujaca sie przy ulicy Twardej 6.
Jest glówna synagoga Gminy Wyznaniowej Zydowskiej w Warszawie oraz synagoga, w której urzeduje Naczelny Rabin Polski Michael Schudrich.
Nabozenstwa odbywaja sie w niej codziennie. W kazde swieto, podczas którego odmawia sie izkor, caly czas rozbrzmiewaja modlitwy – wedle zyczenia fundatorów – wspominajace zmarlych Rywke i Zalmana Nozyków.

"Smieszna" sprawa zwiazana z tym keszem to fakt, ze gdy po raz pierwszy próbowalem go umiescic zostalem zatrzymany przez Policje i zabrany na komisariat. Okazalo sie, ze dokladnie tego dnia, kilka godzin przed moja wizyta, ktos zdewastowal front budynku piszac na nim linki do stron internetowych zwiazanych z politycznymi rozgrywkami. Straznicy nie mieli watpliwosci, ze to bylem ja, co oczywiscie nie bylo prawda (wykazaly to jednoznacznie nagrania), ale stracilem przez to kupe czasu na skladaniu wyjasnien :)

Skrzynka nie jest przyczepiona do budynku!

Sygnal GPS mocno tancuje w tym miejscu, wiec polecam spojrzec na mape przed poszukiwaniami.

The Nozyk Synagogue is the only surviving prewar Jewish house of prayer in Warsaw, Poland. It was erected prior to 1902 and was restored after World War II. It is still operational and currently houses the Warsaw Jewish Commune, as well as other Jewish organizations.
Before World War II the Jewish community of Warsaw, one of the largest Jewish communities in the world at that time, had over 400 houses of prayer at its disposal. However, at the end of 19th century only two of them were separate structures, while the rest were smaller chapels attached to schools, hospitals or private homes. The earliest Round Synagogue in the borough of Praga served the local community since 1839, while the Great Synagogue (erected in 1878) was built for the reformed community. Soon afterwards a need arose to build a temple also for the orthodox Jewry. Between 1898 and 1902 Zalman Nozyk, a renowned Warsaw merchant, and his wife Ryfka financed such temple at Twarda street, next to the neighbourhood of Grzybów and Plac Grzybowski. The building was designed by Leandro Marconi, a son of the Italian-born architect Enrico Marconi. The façade is neo-romanticist, with notable neo-Byzantine elements. The building itself is rectangular, with the internal chamber divided into three aisles.
The synagogue was officially opened to the public on May 26, 1902. The following year the founders donated it to the Warsaw Jewish Commune, in exchange for yearly prayers in their intention. In 1923 the building was refurbished by Maurycy Grodzienski, who also designed a semi-circular choir that was attached to the eastern wall of the temple. In September 1939 the synagogue was damaged during an air raid. During World War II the area was part of the Small Ghetto and shared its fate during the Ghetto Uprising and then the liquidation of the Jewish community of Warsaw by the Nazis. After 1941 the Germans used the building as stables and a depot. After the war the demolished building was partially restored and returned to the Warsaw Jewish Commune, but the reconstruction did not start. It was completely rebuilt between 1977 and 1983 (officially opened April 18, 1983). It was also then that a new wing was added to the eastern wall, currently housing the seat of the commune, as well as several other Jewish organizations.

"Funny" thing about that cache is that when I was first trying to place it I got caught by the Police and taken to the Police station, because on that day in the morning someone had devastated the front of the building putting some political crappy websites urls. The security guards pointed at me as the one who had done it. It was, of course, not true, but they wasted a lot of my time :)

The cache is not attached to the building!

The GPS signal is really dancing there, try to look at the maps first.

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anebmavx, zntarf, pmrejbab / pbeare, zntarg, erq

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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