Objects

The Great Synagogue currently situated in 7 Czerwonego Krzyża Street was erected between 1764 and 1771 thanks to the efforts of the kehilla and support of the Czartoryski family foundation. Its design was most probably created by Paweł Antoni Fontana. The synagogue was partially rebuilt at the end of the 18th century. A hundred years later a second storey and two corner annexes were built. The interior was reconstructed after a fire had destroyed it in 1934. During the occupation the synagogue was devastated by the Nazis and changed into a storehouse. In such a condition it survived until 1970. In the 1980s it was thoroughly renovated and the Museum of Łęczna and Włodawa Lake District was opened there in 1986. A display of Judaica enriched the permanent ethnographic in 1990.