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Bývalá židovská synagoga;Klub PZKO

Czechia

On Božkova Street in Český Těšín, the building you are looking for does not stand apart. It sits shoulder to shoulder with its neighbours in a row of terraced houses, and that ordinary placement is the key to its whole story. This is the former Schomre-Schabos synagogue, built in an eclectic Moorish style and now used as a clubroom by PZKO, the Polish Cultural and Educational Union. It is one of three synagogues in the Moravian-Silesian Region and is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

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