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Great Synagogue of Tallinn

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Grande syna Tallinn

Great Synagogue of Tallinn (Estonian: Tallinna suur sünagoog) was a synagogue in Maakri Street, Tallinn, Estonia. Nowadays, the Jews are using Tallinn Synagogue.The synagogue was built in 1884, and it was designed by Nikolai Thamm senior senior.After the March bombing in 1944, the synagogue was in fire. In 1947, the synagogue was demolished.

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Great Synagogue of Tallinn
Rävala pst, Tallinn Kesklinna linnaosa

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N 59.434444 ° E 24.757222 °
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Rävala pst 6
15049 Tallinn, Kesklinna linnaosa
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Sokos Hotel Viru
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Sokos Hotel Viru is a hotel in Tallinn, Estonia. Originally owned by Intourist and called Viru Hotel, it was first opened on 5 May 1972. The hotel building was the first high-rise building in Estonia and an inseparable part of the Tallinn cityscape. Nowadays, the hotel is connected to the shopping centre, Viru Keskus and is owned by Sokos Hotels. The Soviet Union gave the project of Viru Hotel to the construction company Repo Oy from Savonlinna, Finland in 1969 and construction of the hotel started in July. However, the construction company went bankrupt in the middle of construction after a fire broke out on the top floors of the hotel in December 1970, so the state had to find another construction company, and financial backing for the project. The new construction company Haka Oy finished the hotel in May 1972. The project paid off, because it resulted in a new construction project in Pääjärvi that same year, and later new construction projects in Enso and Kostamus (all these being in the Republic of Karelia).During the Soviet era, the 23rd floor of the hotel housed a KGB radio centre, used to eavesdrop and spy on the hotel guests. Sixty of the hotel rooms had concealed espionage devices, and even some of the tables in the restaurant had microphones. The KGB left the hotel in a hurry right before the independence of Estonia in August 1991, but the secret rooms were not found until 1994. The former radio centre is now a museum.In 2003, the hotel was sold to the S Group, a Finnish retailing cooperative organisation. It now has 516 rooms.