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.
Location | Oblast | Name | Built | Destroyed | Remarks | Picture |
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Alushta | Republic of Crimea | Alushta Synagogue | 2007–2008 | |||
Belz | Lviv | Belz Old Synagogue | ||||
Belz | Lviv | Belz New Synagogue | 1843 | 1950s | ||
Berdyansk | Zaporizhzhia | Berdyansk Synagogue | ||||
Berdychiv | Zhytomyr | Berdychiv Choral Synagogue | 1850 | |||
Berehove | Zakarpattia | Great Synagogue | 1890 | closed in 1959, covered by concrete shell and used as theatre | ||
Beresdivtsi | Lviv | Beresdivtsi | 1790 end 18th century |
1941 destroyed in WW II |
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Bershad | Vinnytsia | Synagogue | 1820 | neither destroyed during World War II nor closed after the war; still active | ||
Bila Tserkva | Kyiv | Great Synagogue | 1860 | closed around 1930. Building well preserved. Used as college | ||
Bilky | Zakarpattia | Bilky Synagogue | ||||
Boiany | Chernivtsi | Boiany Synagogue | ||||
Brody | Lviv | Brody Synagogue | 1742 | Ruined | ||
Chechelnik | Vinnytsia | Chechelnik Synagogue | 1750 | To be restored after 2018 | ||
Chernivtsi | Chernivtsi | Synagogue Chernivtsi | 1873–1878 | closed in 1940, later burnt down 1959 partially rebuilt and used as a cinema |
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Chervonohrad | Lviv | Chervonohrad Synagogue | ||||
Chop | Zakarpattia | Synagogue Chop | 1908 | |||
Chortkiv | Ternopil | Chortkiv Old Synagogue | 1771 | devastated during WW II | ||
Chortkiv | Ternopil | Chortkiv Hasidic Synagogue | 1881–1885 | |||
Dnipro | Dnipropetrovsk | Golden Rose Synagogue | 1868 | 1924 workers club and storehouse 1996 returned to Jewish community |
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Dolyna (Terebovlia) (Janów Trembovelski) |
Ternopil | Dolyna (Terebovlia) Synagogue | 1700 | 1941 | Built around 1700; burnt down in WW II |
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Donetsk | Donetsk | Donetsk Synagogue | 1887 | |||
Dowhe | Zakarpattia | Dowhe Synagogue | ||||
Drohobych | Lviv | Choral-Synagogue | 1844–1863 | warehouse after WW II later ruined renovated since 2016 |
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Drohobych | Lviv | Progressive Synagogue | 1909 | |||
Druzkopol | Volyn | Druzkopol Synagogue | ||||
Dubno | Rivne | Dubno Synagogue | 1782-1784 | 1939 | ||
Feodosia | Crimea | Feodosia Choral Synagogue | ||||
Halych | Ivano-Frankivsk | Halych Synagogue | 16th century | , | ||
Horokhiv | Volyn | Horokhiv Synagogue | , | |||
Horodok | Lviv | Horodok, Lviv Oblast Synagogue | ||||
Husiatyn | Ternopil | Synagogue Husiatyn | 1654 | damaged during WW II 1960 renovated, museum deteriorating since 1990 |
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Hvizdets | Ivano-Frankivsk | Gwoździec Synagogue | 1640 | 1941 | wooden Synagogue, damaged during WW I, 1941 completely burnt down | |
Ivano-Frankivsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | Ivano-Frankivsk Great Synagogue | 1894-1895 | |||
Ivano-Frankivsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | Ivano-Frankivsk Otyner Kloyz Synagogue | ||||
Kamianets-Podilskyi | Khmelnytskyi | Kamianets-Podilskyi Synagogue | 1850 middle of 18th century |
today used as restaurant | ||
Kharkiv | Kharkiv | Choral-Synagogue | 1913 | biggest synagogue in Ukraine | ||
Kherson | Kherson | Kherson Old Synagogue | 1780 | 1940s | ||
Kherson | Kherson | Kherson New Synagogue | 1895 | |||
Khodoriv | Lviv | Khodoriv Synagogue | 17th century | 1940s | ||
Kyiv | Kyiv | Great Choral Synagogue | 1895 | 1929 riding stable after 1945 again used as synagogue |
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Kyiv | Kyiv | Brodsky Choral Synagogue | 1898 | 1929 artists club 1941 horse stable 1955 puppet theatre 1997 returned to Jewish community |
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Kyiv | Kyiv | Karaite Kenesa | 1902 | belonged to the der Karaite Community, after 1919/1926 no longer used as a synagogue |
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Kyiv | Kyiv | Galitska Synagogue | 1910 | 1930 closed as a synagogue 2001 returned to the Jewish community |
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Kolomyia | Ivano-Frankivsk | Kolomyia Synagogue | second half 19th century | 1941 | ||
Kozliv | Ternopil | Kozliv Synagogue | ||||
Kremenchuk | Poltava | Kremenchuk Synagogue | 19th century | 1994 | ||
Kremenets | Ternopil | Kremenets Great Synagogue | 1839 | 1941 | ||
Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd) | Kirovohrad | Kropyvnytskyi Choral Synagogue | 1895-1897 | |||
Liuboml | Volyn | Liuboml Synagogue | 1510 | 1947 | ||
Lutsk | Volyn | Kenesa, Lutsk | 1814 | 1972 | Kenesa of the Karaite community (wooden building) | |
Lutsk | Volyn | Great Synagogue | 1626–1629 | after 1942 partially destroyed after 1970 restored today used as a sports club |
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Lviv | Lviv | Golden Rose Synagogue | 1582 | 1941 | ||
Lviv | Lviv | Great Suburb Synagogue | 1633 | 1941 | ||
Lviv | Lviv | Great City Synagogue | 1801 | 1943 | ||
Lviv | Lviv | Jakob Glanzer Shul | 1844 | 1941 used as a horse stable after 1945 school after 1989 Jewish cultural centre |
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Lviv | Lviv | Tempel Synagogue | 1840–1846 | 1941 | ||
Lviv | Lviv | Tsori Gilod Synagogue | 1925 | also known as Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue 1941 used as a horse stable afterwards storehouse after 1989 returned to the Jewish community |
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Mariupol | Donetsk | Choral Synagogue | 1882 | |||
Mukachevo | Zakarpattia | Synagogue Mukachevo | ||||
Mykolaiv | Mykolaiv | Mykolaiv Synagogue | 1880–1884 | |||
Mykolaiv | Mykolaiv | Mykolaiv Synagogue | 1880–1884 | |||
Norynsk | Zhytomyr | Norynsk Synagogue | 1800 end 18th, begin 19th century |
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Odessa | Odessa | Beit Chabad Synagogue | 1893 | |||
Odessa | Odessa | Brodsky Synagogue | 1863–1867 | since 1925 workers club "Rosa Luxemburg" later city archive 2016 returned to Jewish community |
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Odessa | Odessa | Kenesa-Synagogue | 1895 | |||
Odessa | Odessa | Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue | 1890 | |||
Odessa | Odessa | Or-Sameach Synagogue | 1855 | since 1923 used as a museum, music theater, sports hall 1996 returned to Jewish community |
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Olyka | Volyn | Olyka Great Synagogue | 1879 | 1942 | Wooden synagogue; destroyed sometime after liquidation of ghetto (July 1942) | |
Oleksandriia | Kirovohrad | Oleksandriia Synagogue | ||||
Oleksandrivsk | Luhansk | Oleksandrivsk Synagogue | ||||
Pavlivka | Volyn | Pavlivka Synagogue | 18th century | 1940s | ||
Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast (Golta) | Mykolaiv | Pervomaisk Synagogue | 1908 | |||
Pidhaitsi | Ternopil | Pidhaitsi Synagogue | 1648 | in ruinous state | ||
Pohrebyshche | Vinnytsia | Pohrebyshche Synagogue | 1690 | 1941 | since 1928 workers club destroyed during WW II |
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Radomyshl | Zhytomyr | Radomyshl Synagogue | 1887 | 1930 | burnt down in 1926; demolished in the 1930s | |
Rivne | Rivne | Rivne Synagogue | 1840–1874 | |||
Rozdil | Lviv | Rozdil Synagogue | 1730 | 1907 | destroyed by fire either 1907 or in WK I | |
Sadhora | Chernivtsi | Sadhora Hasidic Synagogue | 19th century | |||
Sataniv | Khmelnytskyi | Sataniv Synagogue | 1514 | probably the oldest synagogue in Ukraine | ||
Sharhorod | Vinnytsia | Synagogue | 1589 | one of the oldest synagogues in Ukraine | ||
Simferopol | Crimea | Simferopol Synagogue | 1881 | 1975 | ||
Skelivka | Lviv | Skelivka Synagogue | 1800 | 1941 | burnt down in WW II | |
Skhidnytsia | Lviv | Skhidnytsia Synagogue | 1880 | only wooden synagogue in Ukraine that still exists | ||
Storozhynets | Chernivtsi | Storozhynets Synagogue | 1890 | |||
Stryi | Lviv | Stryi Small Synagogue | 1689 | reconstruction around 1886 | ||
Ternopil | Ternopil | Ternopil Synagogue | 1622–1628 | 1940s | ||
Tulchyn | Vinnytsia | Tulchyn Synagogue | 1815 | 1948–1949 | ||
Uzhhorod | Zakarpattia | Synagogue Uschhorod | 1910 | not used as a synagogue concert hall, |
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Velyki Mosty | Lviv | Synagogue | 1900 | deteriorating since 1950 | ||
Vinnytsia | Vinnytsia | Vinnytsia Synagogue | 1904 | |||
Voinyliv | Ivano-Frankivsk | Voinyliv Synagogue | ||||
Volodymyr-Volynskyi | Volyn | Volodymyr-Volynskyi Great Synagogue | after 1945 | , | ||
Vyzhnytsia | Chernivtsi | Vyzhnytsia Synagogue | ||||
Vyzhnytsia | Chernivtsi | Vyzhnytsia Mendel Synagogue | late 19th century | |||
Vyzhnytsia | Chernivtsi | Vyzhnytsia Hasidic Synagogue | 19th century | |||
Yabluniv | Ivano-Frankivsk | Yabluniv Synagogue | 1674 between 1650 and 1674 |
1914 in WW I |
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Yazlovets | Ternopil | Yazlovets Synagogue | 1650 | 1941 in WW II |
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Yevpatoria | Crimea | Yevpatoria Synagogue | ||||
Yevpatoria | Crimea | Yevpatoria Kariate Synagogue | ||||
Zabolotiv | Ivano-Frankivsk | Zabolotiv Synagogue | 19th century | |||
Zaporizhzhia | Zaporizhzhia | Zaporizhzhia Synagogue | 19th century | |||
Zarichanka (Lanckorun) | Khmelnytskyi | Zarichanka Synagogue | end of 17th century | 1940s | ||
Zhovkva | Lviv | Zhovkva Synagogue | 1690–1692 | |||
Zhuravne | Lviv | Zhuravne Synagogue | ||||
Zhydachiv | Lviv | Zhydachiv Synagogue | 1742 | 1941 in WW II |
well known for wall paintings | |
External links
Literature
- Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Landscape With Menorah: Jews in the towns and cities of the former Rzeczpospolita of Poland and Lithuania. Salix alba Press, Warsaw 2015, ISBN 978-83-930937-7-9.
- Maria und Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven’s Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commenwealth. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warschau 2015, ISBN 978-83-942048-6-0.
- Maria und Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven’s Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warschau 2017, ISBN 978-83-949149-5-0.
- Sergey R. Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine VOLHYNIA Volume 1 and 2. The Center Of Jewish Art. ISBN 978-965-227-342-0.
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