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Tsori Gilad Synagogue in Lviv
Object Detail

Building Date
1923-1931

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Ukraine | Lvivska obl. | Lviv (Львів)
| 4 Mikhnovs'kykh St.

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Murals, recently repainted


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. 147-148 with ills.; Michael Beizer, Our Legacy: The CIS synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem. 2002), pp. 118-123 with ills.; Vladimir Melamed, Evrei vo L'vove (XIII - pervaia polovina XX veka): Sobytiia, obshchestvo, liudi (Lvov, 1994), p. 242; Yantovskii, Shimon, Sud'by evreiskikh obshchin i ikh sinagog, SSSR, 1976-1987 (Jerusalem, 2003), ills on p. 393-94; Okasana Boiko, Synahohy L'vova (Lviv, 2008), map, pp. 154-158 with ills and plans

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2006

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