Editing Synagogue architecture (section)

====Nine-field synagogues====
Around the beginning of the 1630s the first synagogues with nine-field vaulting were constructed. This design has a set of four large columns or piers placed squarely in a rectangular central space, supporting three rows of three vaults on the ceiling.  They allowed for much greater halls than hitherto and were also called ''nine-bay synagogues''. The [[Great Suburb Synagogue]] in [[Lviv]] and the synagogue in [[Ostroh]] were erected virtually at the same time (1625 and 1627). In these halls the vaulting rested on four tall pillars and on corresponding wall [[pilaster]]s. The columns and the pilasters were situated in equal spacing and dividing the roof-area into nine equal fields. In these synagogues the bimah was a free-standing podium or a bower situated within the central field between the pillars.<ref>Maria und Kazimierz Piechotka: ''Landscape With Menorah: Jews in the towns and cities of the former Rzeczpospolita of Poland and Lithuania.'' Salix alba Press, Warsaw 2015. Page 75. {{ISBN|978-83-930937-7-9}}</ref>