Great Synagogue in Sharhorod
Object Detail
Building Date
16??
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
17??
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
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.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Vladimir Levin
Photographer
Photograph Date
2012
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 48.731873, 28.083158