Obj. ID: 30761
Memorials Memorial at the Site of the Temple in Lviv, Ukraine, 1990
To the main object: Tempel Synagogue in Lviv, Ukraine
Memorial name
No official name
Who/What is Commemorated?
The Temple Synagogue that was demolished by the Nazis
Description
The monument is located at the site of the Temple Synagogue in Lviv, which was demolished by the Nazis. It originally consisted of a stone with a metal plaque attached to it. The plaque bore a Ukrainian inscription on the left side and an English inscription on the right. The inscriptions were separated by an image of a synagogue. A Yiddish inscription was also carved below, but it was unreadable in the photo we have. By 2015, the plaque was replaced with a stone one. The new plaque features the same Ukrainian and English inscriptions, with the inscriptions now separated by the image of a Menorah. The Yiddish inscription is no longer present on the new plaque.
Inscriptions
Ukrainian:
На цьому місці був один із
релігійних центрів єврейської
громади Львова – Темпель
синагога реформістського
юдаїзму возведена в 1844–1845
роках. Спалена і зруйнована
німецькими нацистами в пер-
ші дні після вторгнення до
Львова в липні 1941 року.
English:
This is the site of the
synagogue of the progressive
Jews called the Temple
which served Lvov's
intelligentsia. It was built
during 1844–1845 and was
destroyed by German soldiers
on entering to Lvov on
July 1941.
Yiddish (not later than 2015):
[The inscription is unreadable]
Commissioned by
The Sholem Aleichem Society of Jewish Culture in Lviv
sub-set tree: 
New plaque – granite
In the summer of 1941, the Nazis destroyed the Temple Synagogue. The monument was erected in 1990, and according to photos from the 1990s, it consisted of a stone with a metal plaque attached to it [Yevreiski adresy Ukrainy].
The copper plaque was stolen, and a new granite one was attached to the stone [according to a conversation between Marina Sedova and Oleksander Nazar on March 20, 2025].
Prokopiv, Volodymyr, "Templ, abo persha lvivska synahoha reformistiv," Fotohrafii staroho Lvova, February 22, 2016, https://photo-lviv.in.ua/templ-abo-persha-lvivska-synahoha-reformistiv/ (accessed March 20, 2025)
Yevreiski adresy Ukrainy. Putivnyk (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2020), pp. 343–345.