Early albumen photograph of the interior of the Tournelles synagogue in the Marais district of Paris. c. 1890.
The Synagogue de la rue des Tournelles was inaugurated on September 15, 1876. The synagogue’s original Jewish community was mostly French Jews from the Alsace and Lorraine regions of northeastern France. Later they were joined by immigrants from Poland, Tsarist Russia and other countries from Central Europe.
Size: 29×24 cm. Cut at the lower right corner. Good condition.
