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August 6, 2018

Archaeologists Uncover the Bimah of Vilna’s Great Synagogue

A piece of 18th-century baroque architecture.

A team of researchers excavating the destroyed main synagogue in what is now the Lithuanian city of Vilnius (formerly Vilna) have found its bimah—the elevated central platform holding a table on which the Torah is read. Jewish Heritage Europe reports:

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