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Synagogue in Mohyliv-Podilskyi
Object Detail

Building Date
1900?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique
Brick plastered walls, wooden roof constructions, covered with tin.

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

The synagogue was built in the second half of the 19th century.  The use of the building during the Soviet era is unknown.  However, photographs of 1986 show that most of the architectural decorations were still preserved.  The only exception was the northeast facade, where the prayer hall windows were blocked and all the decoration was destroyed.  The two windows on the first tier of the northwest facade were bricked up as well.  In the mid-1990s, the building was transferred to a Protestant Christian community and underwent renovation.  During this renovation, some of the architectural decorations disappeared or were replaced and the remaining windows on the northeast facade were blocked.


Condition

Present Usage
Church

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
2 (Regional)

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);

Anatolii Khaesh, "Bor'ba evreev Podolii za pravo obshchestvennogo bogosluzheniia," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), p. 138, 145;

ГАХО КП, ф. 227, оп. 1, д. 8148 (CAHJP, НМ2/9039.2)


Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia, Vol. 5 (Moscow, 2004), p. 434 with ill..

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Full Name
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Photographer
Photograph Date
2004

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