Festival Lent 2019

Accompanying program at the Synagogue Maribor

20. - 29. June 2019

The Lent Festival is one of the biggest multi-day festivals in Maribor and Slovenia, which offers various music, dance, folklore, theater and other cultural events every year to visitors of our city. In the Synagogue Maribor, during the Festival Lent 2019, from 20th to 29th June 2019, we will al...

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Important announcement

Opening hours

June 2019

  Dear visitors, The Maribor Synagogue will be OPENED FOR PUBLIC in June 2019 according to next schedule: - Wednesday, 5. 6.: from 10:00 to 16:00; - Friday, 7. 6.: from 10:00 to 22:00; - Friday, 14. 6.: from 10:00 to 22:00; - from Monday to Thursday, 17. - 20. 6. and 24....

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Scrolls of Fire

Exhibition opening

4. June 2019, at 18:00

We invite you to join us at the Synagogue Maribor (Židovska cesta 4) on Tuesday, 4th June 2019, at 18:00 for the opening of the exhibition of graphics by a renowned Israeli painter and graphic designer Dan Reisinger, SCROLLS OF FIRE. THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ON DISPLAY IN MARIBOR SYNAG...

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Maribor’s synagogue

The Maribor synagogue was one of the more important synagogues in Styria because of the role and importance of the Maribor Jewish community. The synagogue was not only the religious but also the spiritual and cultural centre of the former Maribor Jewish community. In regard to its importance and...

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Project “Stone Tears”

Project Stone Tears is an international project focused on developing strategies as well as providing educational and meaningful substance for three remembrance days honouring the victims of the Holocaust and Porrajmos (Genocide of the Roma), while promoting and encouraging such activities both i...

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Jews in Slovenia

Jews, even though they were relatively small in number, played an important role in forming the economic and cultural images of today’s Slovenia. There are very few visual remains witnessing the Jewish presence in Slovenia in the early centuries, so it is not exactly clear when the Jews settle...

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