CENTER JUDOVSKE KULTURNE DEDIŠČINE SINAGOGA MARIBOR

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WE'RE GOING ON OUR OWN

The virtual exhibition We're going on our own presents seven independent cultural institutions in Maribor with common roots. They are the backbone of Maribor's institutional cultural activity. In addition to the Maribor Regional Museum, the exhibition also presents the Maribor University Library, the Maribor Regional Archive, the town's main Art Gallery, the Museum of National Liberation, the Maribor Synagogue and the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage the Maribor Regional Unit.

The exhibition We're going on our own was created to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Maribor Regional Museum as part of the project of the same name.

Maribor Synagogue Jewish Cultural Heritage Centre

Maribor Synagogue from the east side, 2022, photo by Domen Kodrič,
© Centre for Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor

The former synagogue in Maribor is a unique monument of Jewish cultural heritage in Slovenia. Today it is the only surviving medieval synagogue in Slovenia, but it is also an important testimony to the strong and influential Jewish community that had to leave Maribor at the end of the 15th century.

View of the former synagogue, the preserved part of the medieval walls and the Jewish Tower, 2022, photo by Domen Kodrič,
© Centre for Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor

The Jews of Maribor were mostly merchants, but they were also very active in the loan business. They had a well-organized community that was influential in the wider Central European area. The Jews lived in a cluster in the so-called Jewish Quarter in the southeastern part of medieval Maribor, and the synagogue, first mentioned in historical sources in 1354, was their religious and social centre.

View of the former Jewish quarter with the preserved synagogue and the Jewish Tower, 2009, photo Branimir Ritonja,
© Centre for Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor

After the Jews left the town, it was converted into the Catholic Church of All Saints. At the end of the 18th century, it was converted into a warehouse, and from the second half of the 19th century it was even used as a dwelling.

Numerous alterations had significantly changed the original character of the Maribor synagogue, so in the 1990s it was carefully renovated with extensive conservation and restoration work and a new cultural and event space was created in the city. The Synagogue Cultural Centre officially opened its doors on 1 April 2001 as a branch of the Maribor Regional Museum, and after ten years of operation the Centre was transformed into the independent public institution Synagogue Centre of Jewish Cultural Heritage Maribor.

Adults	10,00€
Pupils, students, pensioners	5,50€
Preschool children	2,00€
ICOM tours, PRESS cards	free

WE'RE GOING ON OUR OWN

Maribor Synagogue Jewish Cultural Heritage Centre

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