Zasanie Synagogue ( pl, Synagoga Zasańska), located in

Przemyśl Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was pr ...

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, was the only synagogue in Przemyśl built on the western bank of the

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. It served as a house of prayer for 30 years until the

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. Today it is one of the two remaining synagogue buildings in Przemyśl. The other is the

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History

The synagogue was built by the "Society for the Israelite House of Worship in Zasanie", Zasanie being the district of Przemyśl located on the western bank of the

. Construction was started in 1892 and it was finally opened in 1909. In 1939 when the area fell under

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occupation it was turned into a temporary

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. After the war the building was used as a garage, first for buses and then for

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s. In 1994 attempts were made to purchase the building and convert it into an

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and center for the artists of Przemyśl. The building would be named after a famous Przemyśl Jewish artist and include a permanent exhibit commemorating the contributions of the Jews of Przemyśl, their history and display photographs and accounts of the

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. However, in 2005 it was bought by private local businessman Robert Błażkowski. Currently the building remains wrecked, closed and abandoned.

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Zasanie synagogue in Przemysl, 1999
{{Jews and Judaism in Poland Synagogues in Przemyśl Former synagogues in Poland Holocaust locations in Poland

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