List of synagogues in Ukraine
This List of synagogues in Ukraine contains active, otherwise used and destroyed synagogues in Ukraine. In all cases the year of the completion of the building is given. Italics indicate an approximate date.
Chernivtsi Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boiany Synagogue | Boiany | ![]() | |||
Czernowitz Synagogue | Chernivtsi | ![]() | 1878 | Closed in 1940, later burnt down; 1959 partially rebuilt and used as a cinema[1] | |
Sadhora Hasidic Synagogue | Sadhora | ![]() | 19th century | ||
Storozhynets Synagogue | Storozhynets | [1] | 1890 | ||
Vyzhnytsia Synagogue | Vyzhnytsia | [2] | |||
Vyzhnytsia Mendel Synagogue | Vyzhnytsia | [3] | late 19th century | ||
Vyzhnytsia Hasidic Synagogue | Vyzhnytsia | [4] | 19th century |
Republic of Crimea
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alushta Synagogue | Alushta | ![]() | 2008 | ||
Feodosia Choral Synagogue | Feodosia | [5] | |||
Simferopol Synagogue | Simferopol | [6] | 1881 | 1975 | |
Yevpatoria Synagogue | Yevpatoria | [7] | |||
Eupatorian Kenassas | Yevpatoria | ![]() | 1837 | The synagogue complex is the oldest active Karaite synagogue in the world[2] |
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Golden Rose Synagogue | Dnipro | ![]() | 1868 | 1924 workers' club and storehouse; 1996 returned to Jewish community[3] |
Donetsk Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Donetsk Synagogue | Donetsk | [8] | 1887 | ||
Choral Synagogue (Ukrainian: Хоральная синагога) | Mariupol | ![]() | 1882 | Last used as a synagogue in 1944; only ruins remain[4] |
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Halych Synagogue | Halych | [9], [10] | 16th century | ||
Gwoździec Synagogue | Hvizdets | ![]() | c. 1640 | 1941 | Wooden synagogue;; damaged during WWI; completely burnt in 1941[5] |
Ivano-Frankivsk Great Synagogue | Ivano-Frankivsk | ![]() | 1895 | ||
Ivano-Frankivsk Otyner Kloyz Synagogue | Ivano-Frankivsk | ![]() | |||
Kolomyia Synagogue | Kolomyia | [11] | second half 19th century | 1941 | |
Voinyliv Synagogue | Voinyliv | [12] | |||
Yabluniv Synagogue | Yabluniv | [13] | c. 1674; between 1650 and 1674 | c. 1914; in WWI | |
Zabolotiv Synagogue | Zabolotiv | [14] | 19th century |
Kharkiv Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kharkiv Choral Synagogue (Ukrainian: Харківська хоральна синагога) | Kharkiv | ![]() | 1913 | Synagogue until 1923; communal use until 1980; restored as a synagogue in 1980; gutted by a fire in 1988 and restored in 2003;[6] partially damaged in 2022 during the Russo-Ukrainian War[7] |
Kherson Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kherson Old Synagogue | Kherson | [15] | 1780 | 1940s | |
Kherson New Synagogue | Kherson | [16] | 1895 |
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kamianets-Podilskyi Synagogue | Kamianets-Podilskyi | c. 1850; middle of 18th century | Today used as restaurant | ||
Great Synagogue | Sataniv | 1514 | Used as a warehouse from 1933; restored as a synagogue in 2012 and one of the oldest synagogues in Ukraine[8] | ||
Zarichanka Synagogue | Zarichanka (Lanckorun) | [17] | end of 17th century | 1940s |
Kirovohrad Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kropyvnytskyi Choral Synagogue | Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd) | [18] | 1897 | ||
Oleksandriia Synagogue | Oleksandriia | [19] |
Kyiv Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Great Synagogue | Bila Tserkva | ![]() | 1860 | Closed c. 1930; building well preserved; used as college; handed back to the Jewish community from 2019[9] | |
Great Choral Synagogue (Ukrainian: елика хоральна синагога Києва) | Kyiv | 1895 | 1929 riding stable; after 1945 again used as synagogue[10] | ||
Brodsky Choral Synagogue (Ukrainian: Синаго́га Бро́дського) | Kyiv | ![]() | 1898 | 1929 artists' club; c. 1941 horse stable; 1955 puppet theatre; 1997 returned to Jewish community and restored as a synagogue from 2000[11] | |
Karaite Kenesa | Kyiv | ![]() | 1902 | A Karaite synagogue until 1929; a drama centre since 1961[12] | |
Galitska Synagogue (also Halytska Synagogue) | Kyiv | 1910 | Closed as a synagogue in 1930; used a workers' canteen; reopened as a synagogue in 2004[13][14] |
Luhansk Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oleksandrivsk Synagogue | Oleksandrivsk | [20] |
Lviv Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Belz Old Synagogue | Belz | [21] | |||
Belz New Synagogue | Belz | ![]() | 1843 | 1950s | |
Brody Synagogue | Brody | ![]() | 1742 | Ruined | |
Beresdivtsi | Beresdivtsi | ![]() | c. 1790; end 18th century | c. 1941 in WW II | |
Chervonohrad Synagogue | Chervonohrad | ![]() | |||
Choral Synagogue | Drohobych | 1863 | Warehouse after WW II; later ruined; renovated since 2016[15] | ||
Progressive Synagogue | Drohobych | 1909 | |||
Horodok, Lviv Oblast Synagogue | Horodok | [22] | |||
Khodoriv Synagogue | Khodoriv | ![]() | 17th century | 1940s | |
Golden Rose Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת טורי זהב) | Lviv | ![]() | 1582 | 1941 | Desecrated in August 1941; ruins demolished in 1943; now part of The Space of Synagogues[16][17][18] |
Great Suburb Synagogue | Lviv | ![]() | 1633 | 1941 | Ruins dismantled in the late 1940s[19] |
Great City Synagogue | Lviv | ![]() | 1801 | 1942 | Burend by the Nazis in August 1941; ruins destroyed in 1942[20] |
Jakob Glanzer Shul | Lviv | ![]() | 1844 | Used as a synagogue until 1962; various other uses during WWII and Soviet occupration; Jewish cultural centre and museum since 1995[21] | |
Tempel Synagogue | Lviv | ![]() | 1846 | 1941 | Destroyed by the Nazis during WWII[22][23] |
Tsori Gilod Synagogue | Lviv | ![]() | 1925 | Also known as Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue; 1941 used as a horse stable; afterwards storehouse; restored as a synagogue from 1989[24] | |
Rozdil Synagogue | Rozdil | ![]() | c. 1730 | c. 1907 | Destroyed by fire either 1907 or in WWI |
Skelivka Synagogue | Skelivka | ![]() | c. 1800 | c. 1941 | Burnt down in WWII |
Skhidnytsia Synagogue | Skhidnytsia | ![]() | c. 1880 | The only remaining wooden synagogue in Ukraine[25] | |
Stryi Small Synagogue | Stryi | [23] | 1689 | Reconstruction c. 1886 | |
Great Synagogue | Velyki Mosty | ![]() | c. 1900 | Damaged during both WWI and WWII; the synagogue ruins have been deteriorating since c. 1950[26] | |
Great Synagogue | Zhovkva | 1692 | Partially destroyed during WWII; partial rebuild during the 1950s and 1990; included on the 2000 World Monuments Watch; remains partially restored[27][28] | ||
Zhuravne Synagogue | Zhuravne | [24] | |||
Zhydachiv Synagogue | Zhydachiv | ![]() | 1742 | c. 1941 in WW II | Well known for murals |
Mykolaiv Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mykolaiv Synagogue | Mykolaiv | [25] | 1884 | ||
Pervomaisk Synagogue | Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast (Golta) | [26] | 1908 |
Odesa Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Beit Chabad Synagogue | Odesa | ![]() | 1893 | ||
Brodsky Synagogue | Odesa | ![]() | 1867 | Since c. 1925 workers' club "Rosa Luxemburg"; later city archive; 2016 returned to Jewish community and under restoration[29] | |
Kenesa Synagogue | Odesa | ![]() | 1895 | ||
Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue | Odesa | ![]() | 1890 | ||
Or-Sameach Synagogue | Odesa | ![]() | 1855 | Since 1923 used as a museum, music theater, sports hall; 1996 returned to Jewish community |
Poltava Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kremenchuk Synagogue | Kremenchuk | [27] | 19th century | 1994 |
Rivne Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dubno Synagogue | Dubno | [28] | 1784 | 1939 | |
Rivne Synagogue | Rivne | ![]() | 1874 |
Ternopil Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chortkiv Old Synagogue | Chortkiv | ![]() | 1771 | Devastated during WW II | |
Chortkiv Hasidic Synagogue | Chortkiv | ![]() | 1885 | ||
Dolyna (Terebovlia) Synagogue | Dolyna (Terebovlia) (Janów Trembovelski) | ![]() | c. 1700 | c. 1941 | Burnt down in WW II |
Great Synagogue | Husiatyn | 1654 | Damaged during WW II; renovated c. 1960 as a museum; deteriorating since c. 1990[30][31] | ||
Kozliv Synagogue | Kozliv | [29] | |||
Kremenets Great Synagogue | Kremenets | ![]() | 1839 | 1941 | |
Great Synagogue | Pidhaitsi | ![]() | c. 1648 | 2019 | Abandoned during WWII; used for grain storage thereafter, then in a ruinous state before its collapse in 2019 and subsequent demolition[32] |
Ternopil Synagogue | Ternopil | [30] | 1628 | 1940s | |
Yazlovets Synagogue | Yazlovets | ![]() | c. 1650 | c. 1941; in WWII |
Vinnytsia Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bershad Synagogue | Bershad | ![]() | c. 1820 | Neither destroyed during World War II nor closed after the war; still active[33] | |
Chechelnik Synagogue | Chechelnik | ![]() | c. 1750 | Restoration commenced in 2018 | |
Pohrebyshche Synagogue | Pohrebyshche | ![]() | c. 1690 | c. 1941 | A former wooden synagogue; used as a workers' club from 1928; destroyed during WWII[34] |
Great Synagogue | Sharhorod | ![]() | 1589 | One of the oldest synagogues in Ukraine[35] | |
Tulchyn Synagogue | Tulchyn | [31] | 1815 | 1949 | |
Vinnytsia Synagogue | Vinnytsia | [32] | 1904 |
Volyn Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Druzkopol Synagogue | Druzkopol | [33] | |||
Horokhiv Synagogue | Horokhiv | [34], [35] | |||
Liuboml Synagogue | Liuboml | [36] | 1510 | 1947 | |
Kenesa, Lutsk | Lutsk | ![]() | 1814 | 1972 | Kenesa of the Karaite community (wooden building) |
Great Synagogue | Lutsk | ![]() | 1629 | Partially destroyed after 1942; after 1970 restored; today used as a sports club[36][37] | |
Olyka Great Synagogue | Olyka | ![]() | 1879 | c. 1942 | Wooden synagogue; destroyed sometime after July 1942 |
Pavlivka Synagogue | Pavlivka | ![]() | 18th century | 1940s | |
Volodymyr-Volynskyi Great Synagogue | Volodymyr-Volynskyi | [37], [38] | after 1945 |
Zakarpattia Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Great Synagogue | Berehove | ![]() | c. 1890 | Closed in 1959; covered by concrete shell and used as theatre[38] | |
Bilky Synagogue | Bilky | ![]() | |||
Synagogue Chop | Chop | ![]() | 1908 | ||
Dowhe Synagogue | Dowhe | [39] | |||
Mukachevo Synagogue | Mukachevo | ![]() | |||
Uzhhorod Synagogue (Ukrainian: Ужгородська Синагога) | Uzhhorod | ![]() | 1910 | Used as a synagogue until 1944; used as a concert hall since 1947[39] |
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berdyansk Synagogue | Berdyansk | ![]() | |||
Zaporizhzhia Synagogue | Zaporizhzhia | [40] | 19th century |
Zhytomyr Oblast
Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berdychiv Choral Synagogue | Berdychiv | ![]() | 1850 | ||
Norynsk Synagogue | Norynsk | ![]() | c. 1800; end 18th, begin 19th century | ||
Radomyshl Synagogue | Radomyshl | ![]() | 1887 | c. 1930 | Burnt down in 1926; demolished in the 1930s[40] |
References
- ^ "Czernowitz Temple". The Center for Jewish Art. Jerusalem, Israel: Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ Kramer, Howard (13 August 2014). "KENESA OF YEVPATORIA". The Complete Pilgrim. Marietta, Georgia. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ Shulman, Ian (15 January 2013). ""World's biggest Jewish community center opens in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine"". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ "Remembrance of Culture: Mariupol Synagogue". Mariupol Future. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ "The Gwoździec Synagogue". culture.pl. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "Great Choral Synagogue". Skyscraper.com. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ^ Hoare, Liam (31 March 2022). "Russian shelling shatters Kharkiv's Jewish heritage". Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "Great Synagogue, Sataniv". Religiana. n.d. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "Synagogue of Bila Tserkva to be returned to the Jewish community". Religious Information Service of Ukraine. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
- ^ "Great Choral Synagogue in Podil, Kyiv (29 Schekovytska Street)". Virtual Shtetl. Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
- ^ Rededicated Kyiv synagogue to serve as community center
- ^ Kalnytsky, Mykhailo (3 May 2019). "A historian reveals who built the Actor's House". Hromadske Radio (Interview). Interviewed by Andriy Kobalia. Retrieved 30 March 2024 – via Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.
- ^ "Galitska Synagogue in Kyiv (97a Zhylianska Street)". Virtual Shtetl. Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "Our Mishpocha In Ukraine". Marc's Remarks. Tigard, Oregon, USA: Jewish Federation of Greater Portland. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "Renovation". Yneynews. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ^ Francisco, Jason (23 August 2016). "A New Day for the Golden Rose in L'viv". Jewish Heritage Europe. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ "The Space of Synagogues". Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Ukraine: Inauguration of Space of Synagogues in L'viv". Jewish European Heritage. 5 September 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "VUL. SIANSKA, 16 – FORMER GREAT SUBURBAN SYNAGOGUE". Lviv Interactive. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Great City Synagogue". Virtual Shtetl. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. n.d. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ Boyko, Oksana, ed. (n.d.). "VUL. VUHILNA, 1-3 – FORMER JANKEL JANCER SHUL SYNAGOGUE". Lviv Interactive. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Synagoga Tempel we Lwowie". Virtual Shtetl (in Polish).
- ^ Helston, Józef. "Synagogi Lwowa". Architektura Lwowa.
- ^ "The Tsori Gilead Synagogue in Lviv (4 Brativ Mikhnovskykh Street)". Virtual Shtetl. Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ Gruber, Samuel D. (2005). "Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine". United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad: Paper 94. School of Architecture.
- ^ "Great Synagogue in Velyki Mosty, Ukraine". The Center for Jewish Art. Israel. n.d. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ Zakaliuzna, Bozhena; Kerzhner, Anatoliy. "Zhovkva: Guidebook". Shtetl Routes. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Zhovkva Synagogue". World Monuments Fund. 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ Levin, Vladimir (2020). "Reform or Consensus? Choral Synagogues in the Russian Empire". Arts. 9 (72). Jerusalem, Israel: The Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 6–10. doi:10.3390/arts9020072. Retrieved 5 April 2024 – via ResearchGate.
- ^ "Synagogye". Judaica.kiev.ua. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ^ "Deteriorating Husiatyn, Ukraine fortress synagogue is for rent". Jewish Heritage Europe. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ "Ukraine: Collapse of buttress threatens long-abandoned 17th century Pidhaitsi synagogue". Jewish Heritage Europe. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "Synagogue (Shilekhl) in Bershad". Historic Synagogues of Europe. Jerusalem, Israel: Center for Jewish Art and Foundation for Jewish Heritage. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1998. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ Farran, Bill (2023). "Pogrebishche, Ukraine - Original Linocut". The Artwork of Bill Farran: Lost Treasures: The Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ Sokolova, A.; Dymshits, V. (2001). "STONE SYNAGOGUES OF THE SIXTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES IN THE UKRAINE AND BYELORUSSIA". European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe. 34 (2): 55–62. Retrieved 9 April 2024 – via JStor.
- ^ "Great Synagogue in Lutsk". Historic Synagogues of Europe. Israel: Foundation for Jewish Heritage and The Center for Jewish Art. 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Great Synagogue in Lutsk, Ukraine". The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art. Israel: The Center for Jewish Art. n.d. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Beregovo". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- ^ Kozloff, Nikolas (2 March 2019). "A Forgotten Moorish Synagogue Amidst Uzhgorod's Tangled Ethnic History". NKOZ photography. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "Уездный город Радомысль Киевской губернии начала ХХ века" (in Russian). Retrieved 10 June 2019.
External links
- [41] Old postcards and photos of synagogues in Ukraine
- [42] Old pictures of synagogues (many in Ukraine) - alamy.de
Further reading
- Piechotka, Maria; Piechotka, Kazimierz (2015). Landscape With Menorah: Jews in the towns and cities of the former Rzeczpospolita of Poland and Lithuania. Warsaw: Salix alba Press. ISBN 978-83-930937-7-9.
- Piechotka, Maria; Piechotka, Kazimierz (2015). Heaven's Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commenwealth. Warschau: Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. ISBN 978-83-942048-6-0.
- Piechotka, Maria; Piechotka, Kazimierz (2017). Heaven's Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Warschau: Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. ISBN 978-83-949149-5-0.
- Kravtsov, Sergey R.; Levin, Vladimir. Synagogues in Ukraine VOLHYNIA. Vol. 1 and 2. The Center Of Jewish Art. ISBN 978-965-227-342-0.
- v
- t
- e
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_of_David.svg/15px-Star_of_David.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/15px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png)
- Jewish autonomy in Crimea
- Antisemitism
- The Holocaust
- History
- Brody
- Chernivtsi
- Kharkiv
- Kyiv
- Odessa
- Other historic Jewish communities
Orthodox |
|
---|---|
Secular |
|
Zionist |
|
Current |
|
---|---|
Former |
|
- List of Ukrainian Jews
- List of synagogues