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Synagogue

Versailles, Yvelines, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
La synagogue en totalité (cad. AK 150) : inscription par arrêté du 27 janvier 2010
Protection dates
2010/01/27 : inscrit MH
Type
synagogue
Main period of construction
4e quart 19e siècle
Dates
1884
Architect or builder
Aldrophe Alfred-Philibert (architecte)
Ownership
propriété d'une association cultuelle
Address
10 rue Albert-Joly
Commune
Versailles
Département
Yvelines
Region
Île-de-France
Country
France
Coordinates
48.81042, 2.13609
Mérimée reference
PA78000027

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).

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La synagogue de Versailles fut édifiée en 1884 selon les plans de l'architecte Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe et inaugurée en septembre 1886. Cet ensemble comprend le temple proprement dit et un immeuble attenant dans lequel se trouvent un petit oratoire et les appartements du rabbin et du ministre-officiant. De style néo-roman, l'édifice principal est dominé par un vitrail en forme de rosace qui occupe le milieu de la façade, flanquée de deux tours carrées et surmontée du rouleau de la Thora. A l'intérieur, le mobilier du temple est assez austère, contrairement à l'oratoire qui renferme l'Arche d'Alliance de style Renaissance et un pupitre en bois peint et doré

English translation

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The Versailles synagogue was built in 1884 according to the plans of architect Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe and inaugurated in September 1886. This complex comprises the temple proper and an adjoining building in which are found a small oratory and the apartments of the rabbi and the minister-officiant. Of neo-Romanesque style, the main building is dominated by a stained glass window in the shape of a rose window which occupies the middle of the facade, flanked by two square towers and topped with the Torah scroll. Inside, the furnishings of the temple are quite austere, unlike the oratory which contains the Ark of the Covenant of Renaissance style and a painted and gilded wooden lectern

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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