(JTA) — Romania issued a postage stamp marking the 130th anniversary of the Great Temple of Radauti in the country’s north.
Romfilatelia announced the introduction of the stamp ahead of the Aug. 18 the anniversary of the synagogue’s 1883 inauguration in honor of Franz Joseph I, the Austro-Hungarian emperor who ruled the area of Radauti.
Radauti had more than 4,700 Jews who made up 35 percent of the total population in 1941, the year local Romanians staged a pogrom, according to the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania.
Many of them were killed along with about 400,000 Jews murdered in Romanian-controlled areas during the Holocaust, according to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial. The country currently has a Jewish population of a few thousand people, according to the European Jewish Congress.
The synagogue is a massive building constructed in Moorish style with two tall, domed towers reminiscent of an Orthodox cathedral. It features three arches at the entrance supported by four columns.
The postage stamps shows a picture of the building, a Star of David and a menorah.
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