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Choral Synagogue (Minsk)
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Choral Synagogue may refer to: Belarus * Choral Synagogue (Brest) Latvia * Great Choral Synagogue (Riga) Lithuania * Kaunas Synagogue (Kaunus) * Choral Synagogue (Vilnius) Romania * Templul Coral (Bucharest) Russia * Moscow Choral Synagogue (Moscow) * Main Choral Synagogue (Rostov-on-Don) * Choral Synagogue (Smolensk) * Grand Choral Synagogue (St. Petersburg) Ukraine * Choral Synagogue (Bila Tserkva) * Golden Rose Synagogue (Dnipro) * Choral Synagogue (Drohobych) * Kharkiv Choral Synagogue (Kharkiv) * Brodsky Choral Synagogue (Kyiv) * Great Choral Synagogue (Kyiv) See also * List of choral synagogues Choral synagogues ( yi, Khorshul) were built in Eastern Europe, from Hungary to Russia. These synagogues represented the ideas of Jewish Enlightenment (''Haskalah'') and made certain reforms to the traditional Jewish customs (''minhag''). Often, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choral Synagogue (Brest)
The Choral Synagogue or the Great Synagogue was the main synagogue in Brest, Belarus (known in Yiddish as Brisk). Completed in circa 1862, it was used as a synagogue until World War II. History An old synagogue had stood in Brest for nearly a century, having been built in 1759. However in 1847, its building was either destroyed or had burned down, and funds were collected to erect a new building. The building took years to complete due to a lack of funding; despite the construction's commencement being in 1851, the structure was only completed in 1861/1862. In 1859, a fire ravaged the synagogue but it was restored. In 1941, with the creation of the Brest Ghetto during World War II, the synagogue sat on the ghetto border, next to its entrance, and was used by the Nazis as a warehouse. Although the building was damaged in 1942 during the ghetto's liquidation, it remained standing until 1959. At that time, it was confiscated by the communist government and transformed into a the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Choral Synagogue (Riga)
The Great Choral Synagogue (, ) on Gogoļa iela (Gogol Street) was the largest synagogue in Riga, until it was burned down on 4 July 1941. The synagogue was designed in 1868 by architect Paul von Hardenack and the building was completed in 1871. The architecture consisted of several different styles, however, Neo-Renaissance was the dominant style. The synagogue was famous throughout the city for its cantors and its choir. The synagogue was burned down on 4 July 1941 after the Nazi German occupation of Riga. There are reports that 20 Jews were locked in the basement. Historian Bernhard Press states that some of the victims were Lithuanian Jews who had taken refuge there.Press, ''The Murder of the Jews in Latvia'', at page 46 Gertrude Schneider identifies the victims as mostly women and children. Frida Michelson, a Latvian Jew who had been working near Jelgava in a forced labor detail when the synagogue was burned, reported that she was told by a friend (who had heard it fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaunas Synagogue
Kaunas Synagogue ( lt, Kauno choralinė sinagoga) is one of two operating choral synagogues in Lithuania. It is located in Centras eldership, Kaunas. The Neo-Baroque synagogue was built in 1872. In 1902, before the Holocaust in Lithuania, it was one of over 25 synagogues and Jewish prayer houses in the city. The radically designed synagogue claims to have one of the most beautiful arks in the entire Jewish world. The plot for the new synagogue was bestowed to the Kovno Jewish community by the merchant Lewin Boruch Minkowski, the father of Oskar Minkowski and Hermann Minkowski; until 1873 he also subsidized the major part of its construction. A memorial to the estimated 50,000 Lithuanian Jewish children killed during the Holocaust can be found at the rear of the building, complete with 37 stone tablets showing in which towns and cities they lost their lives and just how many of them died in each one. On 20 April 2011, the anniversary of Hitler's birthday, a sign saying "Jews o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choral Synagogue (Vilnius)
The Choral Synagogue of Vilnius ( lt, Vilniaus choralinė sinagoga) is the only synagogue in Vilnius that is still in use. The other synagogues were destroyed partly during World War II, when Lithuania was occupied by Nazi Germany, and partly by the Soviet authorities after the war. The Choral Synagogue of Vilnius was built in 1903. The synagogue is built in a Romanesque-Moorish style. It is the only active synagogue that survived both the Holocaust and Soviet rule in this city that once had over 100 synagogues. During the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union the synagogue was nationalised and turned into a metal factory. Resulting from this usage the building suffered considerable damage. It was restored in 2010 and opened again as a synagogue shortly thereafter. International donations and a small community of Jews in Vilnius support the synagogue. The synagogue holds services and is open to visitors. In 2019, the synagogue along with the Jewish community headquar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Templul Coral
The Choral Temple ( ro, Templul Coral) is a synagogue located in Bucharest, Romania. Designed by Enderle and Freiwald and built between 1864 - 1866, it is a very close copy of Vienna's Leopoldstadt-Tempelgasse Great Synagogue, which had been built in 1855–1858. The synagogue was devastated by the far-right Legionaries, but was then restored after World War II, in 1945. The main hall was recently refurbished, and re-opened in 2015. The synagogue is still hosts daily religious services in the small hall, being one of the few active synagogues in the city and in Romania. Bibliography See also * History of the Jews in Romania * List of synagogues in Romania This list of synagogues in Romania contains active, otherwise used and destroyed synagogues in Romania. The list of Romanian synagogues is not necessarily complete, as only a negligible number of sources testify to the existence of some synagog ... Synagogues in Bucharest Historic monuments in Bucharest Synago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Choral Synagogue
The Moscow Choral Synagogue (russian: Московская Хopaльнaя Cинaгoга, ; he, בית כנסת הכוראלי של מוסקבה) is one of the main synagogues in Russia and in the former Soviet Union. It is located in central Basmanny District at 10 Bolshoy Spasogolinischevsky Lane, close to Kitai-Gorod Metro station. Chief Rabbi Adolf Shayevich is its spiritual head. History The synagogue is located close to the former Jewish settlement in Zaryadye. Moscow city authorities had officially banned synagogue construction inside Kitai-gorod, and thus the synagogue was built one block east from its walls. In 1881, the community hired architect Semeon Eibuschitz, an Austrian citizen working in Moscow. However, his 1881 draft plan was not approved by authorities. The second draft, also by Eibuschitz, was approved in July, 1886, and construction began on May 28, 1887. In 1888, the city intervened again and required the builders to remove the completed dome and the ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Choral Synagogue (Rostov-on-Don)
The Main Choral Synagogue is a former synagogue in Rostov-on-Don. The building is located at Bauman Street, 70. It was opened in 1868. After the October Revolution the building was nationalized and then rebuilt. Currently it houses the Skin and Venereal Diseases Dispensary. The synagogue's building has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. History The first wooden synagogue in Rostov-on-Don was built in 1855. It was located between the present-day Bauman and Ulyanovsk streets near Voroshilov Avenue. In 1863, a brick house of worship was built, but the building was fragile, and in 1866 the house was demolished. In 1868, a new two-story synagogue was built in its place. The authorship of the synagogue project is attributed to architect Sovitsky, collegiate assessor and senior city architect. A.G. Kaplun, S.I. Frey-schist, A.A Danziger also participated in construction works. Funds collection was organized by Rabbi F.I. Gnesin, who was the father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choral Synagogue (Smolensk)
The Choral Synagogue (Синагога (Смоленск)) was a former synagogue in Smolensk in Russia. Today the building is used as a vocational school. There are now in Smolensk two synagogues and five Chadarim. History There were the first Jews in Smolensk in the 15th century, when Prince Vytautas of Lithuania got Smolensk in 1404 and granted it the Magdeburg rights and other privileges. 1728 the Jewish businessmen have acquired the right to come in Smolensk on trading affairs. 4,600 Jews - 10% of the total population, were mentioned in Smolensk in the 19th century. Though Smolensk was not included into the Pale of Settlement, in the 18th and 19th centuries the number of Jews in the city gradually increased and in 1896 had reached 4651 persons (about ten percent of the city's population). Jews traded in wood, flax and grain and were engaged in financial activities. In the beginning of the 20th century in Smolensk there were two synagogues and five chadarim and a Jewish init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Choral Synagogue
The Grand Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg ( rus, Санкт-Петербургская Большая Хоральная Синагога, Sankt-Peterburgskaya Bolshaya Khoralnaya Sinagoga; he, בית הכנסת הכוראלי הגדול (סנקט פטרבורג)) is the third-largest synagogue in Europe. Other names include ''The Great Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg'' and (since 2000) ''The Edmond J Safra Grand Choral Synagogue''. Sometimes it is simply referred to as the ''Saint Petersburg Synagogue'' or ''Bolshaya Sinagoga''. It was built between 1880 and 1888, and consecrated in December 1893. The synagogue is located at 2 Lermontovskii Prospekt, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Chief Rabbi of Saint Petersburg is Menachem Mendel Pewzner. Today the synagogue is a registered landmark and an architectural monument of federal importance. History Permit from the emperor By 1870, there were about ten Jewish houses of worship in Saint Petersburg; however, there was no syna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choral Synagogue (Bila Tserkva)
The Great Synagogue or Choral Synagogue in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast, in Ukraine, was built in the middle of the 19th century. Today the building, which is in good condition, is used as a college. History The Great Synagogue (also known as the Choral Synagogue) was built in the years 1854 to 1860. In 1905 the synagogue was renovated and a new Holy Ark was built. Inside the building there were also several small shops, which were rented out. In the 1920s or 1930s, the synagogue was closed by the Soviet authorities. After World War II a college was placed in the building. For this purpose additional walls were built inside. Architecture The building is nearly square with outer measurements of 25,39 × 25,05m. The height to the finishing cornice is 14,91m and to the rooftop 17,50m. It has three tiers, whereby the lower two tiers are separated from the upper tier by a molded cornice. The front facade shows six pilaster; the pilasters and the cornice are painted whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Rose Synagogue (Dnipro)
The Golden Rose Synagogue ( uk, Дніпровська Хоральна Синагога «Золота Роза») is a synagogue on Kotsyubinskiy Street/Sholom Aleichem street in Dnipro, Ukraine. History The Golden Rose synagogue was built in 1868 (when Dnipro was named Yekaterinoslav). In 1924 the building was used as a workers' club and a warehouse and above the portice a seal of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was located in place of the Magen David. In 1996 the building was returned to the Jewish community. In 1999 the reconstruction began, following the design by a local Jewish architect, A. Dolnik. Frank Meisler, an Israeli artist, designed the foyer, the prayer hall and the Holy Ark A Torah ark (also known as the ''Heikhal'', or the ''Aron Kodesh'') refers to an ornamental chamber in the synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls. History The ark, also known as the ''ark of law'', or in Hebrew the ''Aron Kodesh'' or ''aron ha- .... Above the sanctuary entran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choral Synagogue (Drohobych)
The Choral Synagogue in Drohobych, Lviv Oblast in Ukraine, is the most impressive of the Jewish structures in the town. History It was built between 1844 and 1863. Up to 1918 it served as the ''Main Synagogue'' of Galicia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After World War II Drohobych belonged to the Soviet Union. The authorities converted the building to a warehouse and altered it accordingly. In later years it deteriorated. After Ukraine gained its independence it was returned to the Jewish community. Renovation started in 2014. It was completed in 2018. Architecture The style of the three-story building is a variant of the then-popular Round-arch style. The entry is framed by massive pilasters, surmounted by a decorated gable. Two windows are placed above it vertically. A larger gable, crowned by the tablets of the law surrounds the entry treatment. It again is supported on pilasters capped by decorative towers. Between the pilasters are vertical rows of three wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
