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Osei Hesed Progressive Synagogue in Drohobych
Object Detail

Building Date
1909

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Ukraine | Lvivska obl. | Drohobych (Дрогобич)
| Corner of Mazepy and Sholem-Aleikhem St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Sport facility

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
CJA documentation; Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005); Meir Wunder, Benjamin Lukin, Boris Khaimovich, Grandeur and Glory: Remnants of Jewish Art in Galicia, vol. 1: Eastern Galicia, A-O (Jerusalem, 2005), p. 71 with ill.; Iosif Gelston, "Evreis'ki kul'tobi sporudy Drohobycha" in: Sakral'ne mistetstvo Boikivshchyny: naukovi chytannia pam'iati Mikhaila Dragana (Drohobych, 1997), p. 24, ill. on p. 25; Iosif Gel'ston, "Arkhitekturnye osobennosti planirovok sinagog Drogobycha", Evreis'ka istoriia ta kul'tura v Ukraini, materialy konferentsii, Kyiv, 2-5 veresnia 1996 (Kyiv, 1997), p. 149; Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 197 on p. 104

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2009

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