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Great Synagogue in Sharhorod
Object Detail

Building Date
16??

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
17??

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Abandoned

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

One of early synagogues with four interior piers bearing a cupola, hidden in the roof construction.


Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography

CJA documentation;

Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), p. 24 with ill.;

http://myshtetl.photohunt.org.ua/shargorod.html;

Hatsfirah, no 35 22-2-1893, p. 138 (from Dror)


Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine (Washington, DC: U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, 2005), https://jewishheritageguide.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/uscpaha_jewish_survey_ukraine_2005.pdf (accessed November 30, 2021)

Likhodedov, Vladimir, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 291 on p. 151.

Lukin, Beniamin, Boris Khaimovich, and Alla Sokolova, 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy: istoricheskii putevoditel’, vol. 2 (St. Petersburg: Alexander Gersht, 2000), ills. 235, 247-8, pp. 400, 418-21, 438, 444-446.

Lukin, Beniamin and Boris Khaimovich, 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy: istoricheskii putevoditel’, vol. 1 (Jerusalem - St. Petersburg: Ezro, 1997), ills. 9, 12, 15, 20.

Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 262-3 with ills. and ill. 307.

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2012

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