Muranów

Also known as Muranow

Muranów () is a neighbourhood in the districts of Śródmieście (Downtown) and Wola in central Warsaw, the capital of Poland. It was founded in the 17th century. The name is derived from the palace belonging to Simone Giuseppe Belotti, a Venetian architect, who originally came to Warsaw from the island of Murano. It is the northernmost neighbourhood of the downtown area.

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Settlement.name: Muranów
Settlement.native_name_lang: pl
Settlement.settlement_type: Warsaw neighbourhood
Settlement.image_caption: Museum of History of Polish JewsStawki Street near Lewartowskiego Street
Settlement.image_map: Warszawa Muranów (Śródmieście).png
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Muranów neighbourhood (red) in the District of Śródmieście, Warsaw (navy blue)

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Official website: osiedle-muranow.waw.pl
Image: Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw building 0010.jpg

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History
1700–1900
1900–1939
World War II
1945–contemporary
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Muranów was once Warsaw's most multicultural, densely-populated and diverse precinct with historical architecture, bazaars, churches and synagogues. In the interwar period (1918–1939), the district was primarily inhabited by Jews. As a result, the Warsaw Ghetto was set up in Muranów in 1940 by the occupying Germans. After the ghetto uprising in 1943 commanded by Mordechaj Anielewicz, the district was completely destroyed. Only the sparse few buildings survived the war. Muranów was entirely redeveloped after the war into a socreal-modernist district with 1950s-1960s housing estates, tower blocks and, more recently, modern buildings and skyscrapers.