The Tsori Gilod Synagogue is the only functioning
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synagogue
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...
in
Lviv,
Ukraine.
History
The Tsori Gilod Synagogue and the
Jakob Glanzer Shul
The Jakob Glanzer Shul, or the former Chasidim Synagogue, is a synagogue at the Vuhil'na (Coal) Street Nr.3 in Lviv, Ukraine.
History
The synagogue was built from 1841 to 1844 in a Baroque Revival style. Its construction was financed by Lvov m ...
are the only two Jewish synagogues in Lviv to have survived
World War II. There were nearly fifty before the Nazi occupation.
It was built in 1925, the synagogue was designed by
Albert Kornblüth
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in the
Baroque style. The construction was financed by Jewish charity "Tsori Gilod", and was designed to accommodate 384 worshipers.
The building managed to survive the war as the Nazis used it as a horse stable. After 1945, under the Soviet regime, the synagogue was used as a warehouse. In 1989, the building was returned to the Jewish community. It was renovated from 1995 to 1997, and again from 1999 to 2000. In 2004–5, under the initiative of HGSS Friends of Lviv (a charity associated with Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue in London), and with substantial funding from the Rohr family of New York and Miami, it underwent a major interior renovation under the direction of architect Aron Ostreicher. At the same time the magnificent artwork on the walls and ceilings was restored. These murals of the synagogue are some of the few surviving synagogue paintings in Ukraine. Unfortunately, due to an unprofessional renovation they have lost a touch of the author's soul and their authentic values.
[https://lia.lvivcenter.org/en/objects/cori-gilod-synagogue/ Murals; further information. Retrieved May 22, 2018]
Gallery
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See also
*
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.
External links
Old postcards and pho ...
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List of Jewish Communities by country
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Africa Egypt
* Egyptian Jews
Ethiopia
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Morocco
* Chaim Pinto Synagogue
* École Normale Hébraïque
* Ettedgui Synago ...
References
External links
Tsori Gilod Synagogue, Lviv
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Orthodox synagogues in Ukraine
Synagogues in Lviv
Synagogues completed in 1925