Great Suburb Synagogue
Great Suburb Synagogue | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Judaism (former) |
Ecclesiastical or organisational status | Synagogue (1798–1941) |
Status | Destroyed |
Location | |
Location | Bożnicza-Street 16, Lviv, Lviv Oblast |
Country | Ukraine |
Location of the destroyed synagogue in Ukraine | |
Geographic coordinates | 49°50′53″N 23°58′52″E / 49.84806°N 23.98111°E |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) |
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Type | Synagogue architecture |
Style | Baroque |
General contractor | Ambroży Przychylny [attrib.] (1632) |
Completed | 1632 |
Destroyed | 14 August 1941 |
Materials | Stone; brick |
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The Great Suburb Synagogue was a synagogue at Bożnicza-Street 16 in Lviv, in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine.[1] The synagogue was developed in stages, with the men's prayer hall completed in 1632, located in what was then the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The synagogue was destroyed by Nazi Germany in 1941 and the ruins dismantled during the late 1940s.
History
A wooden synagogue was erected in the Krakivske suburb in the early 1600s; however was short-lived due to fires.[1]
Permission for the construction of a stone synagogue was granted by
As the building evolved, the architectural style changed from Baroque to Renaissance, and then Neoclassical. The placement of the Bimah in the middle of the prayer hall became the prototype of many subsequent Jewish temples of significant size. Also unique was a gallery for students of the Beit Midrash and Talmud-Torah schools.[2] A series of smaller prayer houses were attached to the synagogue, in the mode of separate chapels, including those belonging to the guilds of tailors and butchers, prayer rooms of brotherhoods, Talmudic schools and others, including "Hayutim Gedolim", "Menakrem", "Melamdim", "Nosey Katov", and "Sovhe Tzedek.[1]
The synagogue was burnt to destruction by the
See also
References
External links
- Gelston, Józef (1997). "Synagogi Lwowa" [Synagogues in Lviv] (in Polish). Wydawnictwo "Centrum Europy".