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The Stadttempel ((英語:City Temple)), also called the Seitenstettengasse Temple, is the main synagogue of Vienna, Austria. It is located in the Innere Stadt 1st district, at Seitenstettengasse 4. ==History== The synagogue was constructed in 1824 and 1826. The luxurious Stadttempel was fitted into a block of houses and hidden from plain view of the street, because of an edict issued by Emperor Joseph II that only Roman Catholic places of worship were allowed to be built with facades fronting directly on to public streets. Ironically, this edict saved the synagogue from total destruction during the ''Kristallnacht'' in November 1938, since the synagogue could not be destroyed without setting on fire the buildings to which it was attached. The Stadttempel was the only synagogue in the city to survive World War II, as the Nazis destroyed all of the other 93 synagogues and Jewish prayer-houses in Vienna.〔The Jewish Community of Vienna: Existing against all the Odds, Sonia Misak, Jerusalem Letters, No. 356 8 Nisan 5757 / 15 April 1997 ()〕〔Staff. (The Stadttempel Synagogue, Vienna ), Beth Hatefutsoth. Accessed July 4, 2009.〕〔Bagley, Chris. ("Austrian Jews have yet to regain numbers" ), ''San Francisco Chronicle'', November 9, 2008. Accessed July 4, 2009.〕 In August 1950, the coffins of Theodor Herzl and his parents were displayed at the synagogue, prior to their transfer for reburial in Israel.〔〔Theodor Herzl, the Jew and the man: a portrait, Oscar Benjamin Frankl, Storm, 1949, p. 136.〕 In the 1981 Vienna synagogue attack, two people from a bar mitzvah ceremony at the synagogue were murdered and thirty injured when Palestinian Arab terrorists attacked the synagogue with machine guns and hand grenades.〔via ''Associated Press''. ("Around the World; Palestinians Get Life In Austrian Slayings" ), ''The New York Times'', January 22, 1982. Accessed July 4, 2009.〕 Today the synagogue is the main house of prayer for the Viennese Jewish Community of about 7,000 members.〔(The Stadttempel Synagogue, Vienna )〕 The synagogue has been declared a historic monument.〔〔Rachel Wischnitzer, Architecture of the European Synagogue, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1964, p. 178.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stadttempel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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