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Old Great Synagogue in Brody
Object Detail

Building Date
1742

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

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

Probably the earliest masonry synagogue with interior four piers bearing a cupola, which is hidden in the roof construction.


Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
D (Very bad)

Bibliography

CJA documentation


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)

Khaimovich, Boris. "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: PEU, 1994), pp. 28-9 with ill..

Kravtsov, Sergey. “Na ratunek Wielkiej Synagodze w Brodach,” Sztuka i Krytyka / Art and Criticism 10 (85) (2019): 24–31.

Likhodedov, Vladimir, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 178 on p. 94.

Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 347-9 with ills..

Rolke, Tadeusz and Simon Schama, Tu byliśmy: Ostatnie ślady zaginionej kultury (Berlin-Warszawa, 2008), ill on p. 169.

Wunder, Meir, Benjamin Lukin, Boris Khaimovich, Grandeur and Glory: Remnants of Jewish Art in Galicia, vol. 1: Eastern Galicia, A-O (Jerusalem, 2005), pp. 15-17 with ills..

Yantovskii, Shimon, Sud'by evreiskikh obshchin i ikh sinagog, SSSR, 1976-1987 (Jerusalem, 2003), ills on p. 382-3.

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2011

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