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This painting exemplifies the decorative plaques that sometimes adorned the eastern walls of synagogues to commemorate the glory of the Temple in Jerusalem and indicate the direction of prayer. In…
Contributor:
Netanel Leichter
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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The wooden synagogue in Kamionka Strumiłowa was built in the late seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings and, as in most wooden synagogues, the bimah occupied a central…
Contributor:
Alois Breier
Places:
Kamionka, Russian Empire (Kamianka-Buzka, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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Józef Awin’s reconstruction of the synagogue in the Old Cemetery of Lwów/L’viv, featured here, reflects his clean geometricity and appreciation for Galician wooden synagogue architecture. The cemetery…
Contributor:
Józef Awin
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1909
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Issachar Ber Ryback’s drawings of the painted ceiling of what was known as the Cold Synagogue in Mogilev (today in Belarus) are among the few visual records of the work of the painter Chaim ben…
Contributor:
Issachar Ber Ryback
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1916
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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
Contributor:
Israel ben Mordechai Lisnicki
Places:
Chodorów, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Khodoriv, Ukraine)
Date:
1652 and 1714
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Wooden synagogues were a distinctive style of vernacular architecture that first developed in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century and then flourished in the…
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Photographer Unknown
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Gwoździec, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Hvizdets, Ukraine)
Date:
Mid–17th Century
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The wooden synagogue in Jabłonów was built in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings. It was burned down at the beginning of World War I by Russian…
Contributor:
Alois Breier
Places:
Jablonow, Russian Empire (Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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The Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue is built in the Romanesque revival style, with elements of Moorish revival. It is known as the Brodsky Choral Synagogue because it was built on the estate of the…
Contributor:
Georgiy Schleifer
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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The Great Synagogue of Lutsk (Łuck) in Ukraine was built in 1626. Renaissance in style, the synagogue is an example of a fortress synagogue, built not only as a house of worship but also with the…
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Artist Unknown, Photographer Unknown
Places:
Łuck, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lutsk, Ukraine)
Date:
1626–1628