Synagogue

The Synagogue of Carmel is what remains of the ghetto: a cluster housing minute, separated from the texture of squares, churches, streets and arcades of the city.

The Synagogue has retained its original characteristics unchanged eighteenth century, and is recognized for the linear forms, for suggestive sequence of spaces, for the graceful elegance of the furnishings, such as the most valuable and meaningful in Piedmont. In rooms on the ground floor was built by the Jewish Community of Turin a permanent exhibition, curated by architects Franco Lattes and Paola Valentini.

During the visit, through various media of communication, the issues related to space take the form of synagogues. The path, as far as possible, through a timeline, from eighteenth-century prayer halls, remained in their original configuration, through the nineteenth century renovated synagogues, until the Israelite Temples of Turin and Vercelli. Two examples, Carmagnola and Turin, are an opportunity to read in more detail the transformation of architectural concepts, the role of urban and symbolic values ​​related to them, that characterize the synagogues before and after emancipation.