List of synagogues in Ukraine explained

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.

Chernivtsi Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Boiany Synagogue	Boiany
	Chernivtsi		1878		Closed in 1940, later burnt down; 1959 partially rebuilt and used as a cinema^[1]
Sadhora Hasidic Synagogue	Sadhora		19th century
Storozhynets Synagogue	Storozhynets	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2596	1890
Vyzhnytsia Synagogue	Vyzhnytsia	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/3477
Vyzhnytsia Mendel Synagogue	Vyzhnytsia	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2605	late 19th century
	Vyzhnytsia	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2609	19th century

Republic of Crimea

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Alushta Synagogue	Alushta		2008
Feodosia Choral Synagogue	Feodosia	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2553
Simferopol Synagogue	Simferopol	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2593	1881	1975
Yevpatoria Synagogue	Yevpatoria	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2551
Eupatorian Kenassas	Yevpatoria		1837		The synagogue complex is the oldest active Karaite synagogue in the world^[2]

Donetsk Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Donetsk Synagogue	Donetsk	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/3515	1887
Choral Synagogue	Mariupol		1882		Last used as a synagogue in 1944; only ruins remain^[4]

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Halych Synagogue	Halych	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2559, http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/3119	16th century
Gwoździec Synagogue	Hvizdets			1941	Wooden synagogue damaged during WWI; completely burnt in 1941^[5]
Ivano-Frankivsk Great Synagogue			1895
	Ivano-Frankivsk
Kolomyia Synagogue	Kolomyia	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2574	second half 19th century	1941
Voinyliv Synagogue	Voinyliv	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2460
Yabluniv Synagogue	Yabluniv	https://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=22147	between 1650 and 1674	in WWI
Zabolotiv Synagogue	Zabolotiv	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/3455	19th century

Kherson Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Kherson Old Synagogue	Kherson	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2569	1780	1940s
Kherson New Synagogue	Kherson	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2568	1895

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
	Kamianets-Podilskyi		middle of 18th century		Today used as restaurant
Great Synagogue	Sataniv		1514		Used as a warehouse from 1933; restored as a synagogue in 2012 and one of the oldest synagogues in Ukraine^[8]
Zarichanka Synagogue	Zarichanka (Lanckorun)	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2578	end of 17th century	1940s

Kirovohrad Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Kropyvnytskyi Choral Synagogue	Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd)	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2570	1897
Oleksandriia Synagogue	Oleksandriia	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/920

Kyiv Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Great Synagogue			1860		Closed ; building well preserved; used as college; handed back to the Jewish community from 2019^[9]
	Kyiv		1895		1929 riding stable; after 1945 again used as synagogue^[10]
Brodsky Choral Synagogue	Kyiv		1898		1929 artists' club; horse stable; 1955 puppet theatre; 1997 returned to Jewish community and restored as a synagogue from 2000^[11]
Karaite Kenesa	Kyiv		1902		A Karaite synagogue until 1929; a drama centre since 1961^[12]
Galitska Synagogue	Kyiv		1910		Closed as a synagogue in 1930; used a workers' canteen; reopened as a synagogue in 2004^[13] ^[14]

Lviv Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
	Belz	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/3230
	Belz		1843	1950s
Brody Synagogue	Brody		1742		Ruined
Beresdivtsi	Beresdivtsi		end 18th century	in WW II
Chervonohrad Synagogue	Chervonohrad
Choral Synagogue	Drohobych		1863		Warehouse after WW II; later ruined; renovated since 2016^[15]
Progressive Synagogue	Drohobych		1909
	Horodok	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/3393
Khodoriv Synagogue	Khodoriv		17th century	1940s
Golden Rose Synagogue	Lviv		1582	1941	Desecrated in August 1941; ruins demolished in 1943; now part of The Space of Synagogues^[16] ^[17] ^[18]
Great Suburb Synagogue	Lviv		1633	1941	Ruins dismantled in the late 1940s^[19]
Great City Synagogue	Lviv		1801	1942	Burend by the Nazis in August 1941; ruins destroyed in 1942^[20]
Jakob Glanzer Shul	Lviv		1844		Used as a synagogue until 1962; various other uses during WWII and Soviet occupration; Jewish cultural centre and museum since 1995^[21]
Tempel Synagogue	Lviv		1846	1941	Destroyed by the Nazis during WWII^[22] ^[23]
Tsori Gilod Synagogue	Lviv		1925		Also known as Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue; 1941 used as a horse stable; afterwards storehouse; restored as a synagogue from 1989^[24]
Rozdil Synagogue	Rozdil				Destroyed by fire either 1907 or in WWI
Skelivka Synagogue	Skelivka				Burnt down in WWII
Skhidnytsia Synagogue	Skhidnytsia				The only remaining wooden synagogue in Ukraine^[25]
Stryi Small Synagogue	Stryi	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2597	1689		Reconstruction
Great Synagogue	Velyki Mosty				Damaged during both WWI and WWII; the synagogue ruins have been deteriorating since ^[26]
Great Synagogue	Zhovkva		1692		Partially destroyed during WWII; partial rebuild during the 1950s and 1990; included on the 2000 World Monuments Watch; remains partially restored^[27] ^[28]
Zhuravne Synagogue	Zhuravne	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2615
Zhydachiv Synagogue	Zhydachiv		1742	in WW II	Well known for murals

Mykolaiv Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Mykolaiv Synagogue	Mykolaiv	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2599	1884
Pervomaisk Synagogue	Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast (Golta)	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2554	1908

Odesa Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Beit Chabad Synagogue	Odesa		1893
Brodsky Synagogue	Odesa		1867		Since workers' club "Rosa Luxemburg"; later city archive; 2016 returned to Jewish community and under restoration^[29]
Kenesa Synagogue	Odesa		1895
	Odesa		1890
Or-Sameach Synagogue	Odesa		1855		Since 1923 used as a museum, music theater, sports hall; 1996 returned to Jewish community

Rivne Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Dubno Synagogue	Dubno	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2549	1784	1939
Rivne Synagogue	Rivne		1874

Ternopil Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Chortkiv Old Synagogue	Chortkiv		1771		Devastated during WW II
Chortkiv Hasidic Synagogue	Chortkiv		1885
	(Janów Trembovelski)				Burnt down in WW II
Great Synagogue	Husiatyn		1654		Damaged during WW II; renovated as a museum; deteriorating since ^[30] ^[31]
Kozliv Synagogue	Kozliv	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2575
Kremenets Great Synagogue	Kremenets		1839	1941
Great Synagogue	Pidhaitsi			2019	Abandoned during WWII; used for grain storage thereafter, then in a ruinous state before its collapse in 2019 and subsequent demolition^[32]
Ternopil Synagogue	Ternopil	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2602	1628	1940s
Yazlovets Synagogue	Yazlovets			in WWII

Vinnytsia Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Bershad Synagogue	Bershad				Neither destroyed during World War II nor closed after the war; still active^[33]
	Chechelnik				Restoration commenced in 2018
	Pohrebyshche				A former wooden synagogue; used as a workers' club from 1928; destroyed during WWII^[34]
Great Synagogue	Sharhorod		1589		One of the oldest synagogues in Ukraine^[35]
Tulchyn Synagogue	Tulchyn	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/3181	1815	1949
Vinnytsia Synagogue	Vinnytsia	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2608	1904

Volyn Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Druzkopol Synagogue	Druzkopol	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2548
Horokhiv Synagogue	Horokhiv	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2555, http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2557
Liuboml Synagogue	Liuboml	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/3468	1510	1947
Kenesa, Lutsk	Lutsk		1814	1972	Kenesa of the Karaite community (wooden building)
Great Synagogue	Lutsk		1629		Partially destroyed after 1942; after 1970 restored; today used as a sports club^[36] ^[37]
Olyka Great Synagogue	Olyka		1879		Wooden synagogue; destroyed sometime after July 1942
Pavlivka Synagogue	Pavlivka		18th century	1940s
		http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2610, http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2611		after 1945

Zakarpattia Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Great Synagogue	Berehove				Closed in 1959; covered by concrete shell and used as theatre^[38]
Bilky Synagogue	Bilky
Synagogue Chop	Chop		1908
Dowhe Synagogue	Dowhe	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852#gallery/504f71888e7dfbe6615e18f72db264ad/2544
Mukachevo Synagogue	Mukachevo
Uzhhorod Synagogue	Uzhhorod		1910		Used as a synagogue until 1944; used as a concert hall since 1947^[39]

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Berdyansk Synagogue	Berdyansk
Zaporizhzhia Synagogue	Zaporizhzhia	http://judaica.cz/?page_id=7866#gallery/4c27fddc0f1abffa76c57df962e7d396/2601	19th century

Zhytomyr Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Berdychiv Choral Synagogue	Berdychiv		1850
Norynsk Synagogue	Norynsk		end 18th, begin 19th century
Radomyshl Synagogue	Radomyshl		1887		Burnt down in 1926; demolished in the 1930s^[40]

External links

• http://judaica.cz/?page_id=2852 Old postcards and photos of synagogues in Ukraine
• https://alamy.de/search.html?page=1&ps=100&pn=1&cbstore=0&qt=art-deco-synagogue#BHM=foo%3Dbar%26st%3D0%26sortby%3D2%26qt%3Dart%2520deco%2520synagogue%26qt_raw%3Dart%2520deco%2520synagogue%26qn%3D%26lic%3D3%26edrf%3D0%26mr%3D0%26pr%3D0%26aoa%3D1%26creative%3D%26videos%3D%26nu%3D%26ccc%3D%26bespoke%3D%26apalib%3D%26ag%3D0%26hc%3D0%26et%3D0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3D0%26loc%3D0%26ot%3D0%26imgt%3D0%26dtfr%3D%26dtto%3D%26size%3D0xFF%26blackwhite%3D%26cutout%3D%26archive%3D1%26name%3D%26groupid%3D%26pseudoid%3D%26userid%3D%26id%3D%26a%3D%26xstx%3D0%26cbstore%3D0%26resultview%3DsortbyPopular%26lightbox%3D%26gname%3D%26gtype%3D%26apalic%3D%26tbar%3D1%26pc%3D%26simid%3D%26cap%3D1%26vd%3D0%26cid%3D%26pe%3D%26so%3D%26lb%3D%26fi%3D0%26langcode%3Dde%26ispremium%3D1%26flip%3D0%26saveQry%3D%26editorial%3D1%26t%3D0%26edoptin%3D%26customgeoip%3D%26ps%3D100%26pn%3D1%26cbstore%3D0 Old pictures of synagogues (many in Ukraine) - alamy.de

Further reading

• Book: Piechotka, Maria . Piechotka, Kazimierz . Landscape With Menorah: Jews in the towns and cities of the former Rzeczpospolita of Poland and Lithuania . Salix alba Press . Warsaw . 2015 . 978-83-930937-7-9.
• Book: Piechotka, Maria . Piechotka, Kazimierz . Heaven's Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commenwealth . Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews . Warschau . 2015 . 978-83-942048-6-0.
• Book: Piechotka, Maria . Piechotka, Kazimierz . Heaven's Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews . Warschau . 2017 . 978-83-949149-5-0.
• Book: Kravtsov, Sergey R. . Levin, Vladimir . Synagogues in Ukraine VOLHYNIA . 1 and 2 . The Center Of Jewish Art . 978-965-227-342-0.

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