From synagogue to theatre
Rashid Behbudov State Song Theatre
Alongside functioning as a synagogue, in 1932 the building also began to house the Jewish Workers’ Theatre, which put on performances in Yiddish. But, as a result of Soviet anti-religious propaganda, in 1934 the building stopped functioning as a synagogue altogether and continued exclusively as a theatre until 1940. Later, it became a warehouse storing construction materials and then the administrative building of the Azerbaijan Hydrotechnics and Melioration Scientific Research Institute until 1979. Then it stood abandoned for about 10 years.
As seen on
The Jewish Legacy in Baku
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