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The Synagogue in Sataniv
Sataniv ( uk, Сатанів, russian: Сатанов, pl, Satanów) is an urban-type settlement in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sataniv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Pop ...
, a town in Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
was built in 1514, which probably makes it the oldest existing synagogue in Ukraine.
History
Most sources state 1514 or 1532 as the year of construction. But structural and stylistic features of the building, as well as a comparison with the nearby monastery, support the evidence that the synagogue was built at the beginning of the 17th century. This is further supported by chemical analysis of the mortar made in 1992, which showed that it is similar to the mortars of the mid-17th and early 18th century. In 1933 the synagogue was confiscated by thesoviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
authorities and converted into a warehouse. In later years it stood empty and deteriorated. But in 2012 restoration work started and by now it is completed.
Architecture
The synagogue, which had walls up to 2m thick, was afortress synagogue
A fortress synagogue is a synagogue built to withstand attack while protecting the lives of people sheltering within it.
Fortress synagogues first appeared in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th century at a time of frequent invasions ...
. It was built in the style of the Polish renaissance
The Renaissance in Poland ( pl, Renesans, Odrodzenie; literally: the Rebirth) lasted from the late 15th to the late 16th century and is widely considered to have been the Golden Age of Polish culture. Ruled by the Jagiellonian dynasty, the Crown ...
. The main hall had rib vaults and was the men's prayer hall. Annexes to the west and south served as prayer-rooms for the women. Worth mentioning are the lithic 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- ...
with fine ornaments as well as the main entrance, which is surmounted by a plaster frame. Inside the frame, there is a heraldic composition.
See also
* List of synagogues in UkraineExternal links
References
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